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...bright as a new dime but uses a plot that was minted long ago. Wendell Corey is a petulant assistant district attorney with an ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children. But he goes on a binge and is exposed to the mature blandishments of Barbara Stanwyck, who gets him involved in a nasty murder. Corey is disbarred and Barbara dies in an auto accident over the convenient Hollywood cliff that has served as the execution block for many an offender against the Johnston Office code...
...awed look at Manhattan's gossip-column set as it might be presented to daytime radio fans. The picture makes a showcase for the specialties of its four glittering stars: Ava Gardner's blissfully pneumatic figure, James Mason's decadent inflections, some high-toned suffering by Barbara Stanwyck and the impulsive histrionics of Van Heflin...
...Baby Makes Three (Columbia) drives Robert Young and Barbara Hale to some witless and feverish activity over prospective parenthood. The opening shots, in which a pregnant bride faints at the altar, are something of a novelty. After that, the movie works furiously to overcome its initial breach of Hollywood convention. Some faint sparkle radiates from the racy photography, Robert Young's owl-like pantomime and Robert Hutton's cagey portrayal of a sissified rich boy. But the picture gets its most memorable effects from a series of stylish cocktail-hour gowns...
Also good roles in the play are First Prostitute (Barbara Carlson, Radcliffe '50), Second Prostitute (Barbara Kinno, Radcliffe '50) and Third Prostitute (Marilyn Bradley, Radcliffe '51). The rest of the cast includes David Latimore '52, George L. Mulhurn '51, Paul T. Broneer '51, Edward J. Bell '52, and Joseph B. Dallet...
Married. Cinemactor Gary (I Was a Male War Bride) Grant, 45, and Cinemactress Betsy (Every Girl Should Be Married) Drake, 26, who became his screen protégée two years ago; he for the third time (No. 2: five & dime Heiress Barbara Hutton), she for the first time; after an elopement from Hollywood in a plane piloted by Best Man Howard Hughes; near Phoenix, Ariz...