Word: brecher
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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What was very winning make-believe in the hands of Bemelmans meets massacre in Irving Brecher's screenplay. The story concerns a lovely girl in a mythical land, convent-educated, who inherits millions and turns to her guardian angel for guidance through the maze of worldly wickedness she faces. It is a theme with light beauty, ethereal delicacy; for theatrical success, it would have to be handled with theatrical kid gloves. Brecher quite misses the boat. The story appears ridiculous as well as incredible and it is told in lines maudlin beyond imagination. Treated as fragile fancy, the nonsense...