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Divorced. Barbara ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Hutton, Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, 28, five-and-dime heiress ($20,000,000); from Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 44, as the decree signed by Denmark's King Christian X became final. Son Lance, 5, will spend most of the year with his mother. His father will spend the next few days in a hospital. He fractured a shoulder skiing at Sun Valley...
...Barbara Standwyck plays the part of a girl descended from a long line of card sharks, and does a neat job of trimming Henry Fonda. The latter gives an entirely convincing picture of a man who has been up the Amazon and away from women one year too long. There will never be another actor who can be as dumb and pliable in the hands of a determined woman...
Seeking Divorce. Morton Downey, 39, rotund radio tenor; from Barbara Bennett Downey, 34, second of the cinemadoll Bennett sisters; after twelve years' marriage; charging cruelty; in Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Downey, while declining to contest the suit, intended to fight if necessary for custody of their five children...
...Great McGinty, Christmas in July). It displays a complete set of highly original box-office wiles from the opening moment when a cartooned snake wriggles down the title and gets stuck trying to crawl through the O in Sturges' first name. The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor, with 25 swank costume changes, and reveals homespun Henry Fonda, with a drawing room haircut and 14 sound tailoring jobs, as one of the screen's most socially eligible juveniles...
...snake-specialist son of a millionaire brewer. Returning from an Amazon snake hunt, on the ship he falls in love with a member of a card-sharping trio (Barbara Stanwyck) who has stroked his hair, tickled his ears and seemed eager at just the right moments. Says he in the midst of her seductions: "It's funny to be kneeling here at your feet talking about beer." She comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges...