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...McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is discovered tending bar in a banana republic when the picture opens. A despondent barfly tells him that he was once cashier in a big bank, and McGinty laughs. "I suppose you were the president of a bank!" says the barfly defiantly. "I," says McGinty, "was the Governor of a State." The camera takes over, tells...
...Malcolm produced a shriveled, 64-year-old soothsayer named Thelma Harrison to swear that she had acted as housekeeper of a town flat and a country cottage used by Lady Campbell and another corespondent, Mr. Brian Lewis, son of Shipping Tycoon Lord Essenden...
Those who have read Howard Spring's novel of the same name in 1938 no doubt will feel, after seeing this picture, that it has failed to recapture the strength of the book. For Madeleine Carroll and Brian Aherne hardly go below the surface to create characters who could be the object or the source of any emotion. They pass ineffectively through the story of a novelist. Aherne, finding himself and his worthless son, Louis Hayward, in love with the same painter, Carroll. That the picture suffers from the elimination of certain scenes of the book that might remove...
Bigger moment in Joan's life was her marriage last year to Brian Aherne. The Ahernes are one of Hollywood's happiest married couples. Eschewing Hollywood hotspots, they prefer at homes with the quieter younger set. With Jane Bryan, Margaret Lindsay, Beverly Roberts, Lew Ayres, John Arledge and others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon...
...most people she continued to look and act like a doll-faced, taffy-haired Wampus cutie, and those who thought about her at all thought of her as Olivia de Havilland's kid sister and the wife of Brian Aherne...