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Actress Cornell has surrounded herself with a high-powered troupe of actors, among them Brian Aherne, Charles Waldron, Arthur Byron. Another excellent performance is turned in by Kent Smith as Dunois, the''Bastard of Orleans. He it is who witnesses Joan's first military miracle on the banks of the Loire, when the wind shifts so that the French may attack the English by surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that...
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Everyone is good in Hepburn's new picture except the renowned Katherine and even she becomes more entertaining when dressed as a boy. The honors of the production belong to Cary Grant who gives a fine performances as a cockney carnival man, accent and mannerisms as well as clothes. Brian Aherne becomes a little soupy in his courting, as artists may be expected to do, but he does really good work throughout the picture...
Exuberantly the three make their way through England, recruiting from a London town-house Dennie Moore, a lady's maid with stage ambitions. They buy a van, tour the English coast towns, doing music-hall turns until they encounter Brian Aherne, an artist with whom Sylvia Scarlett falls in love. One day on the beach she slips out of her male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played...
Unfortunately the Playgoer saw Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith...