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...Congress Hotel, Prima Donna Mafalda Favero of Milan's famed La Scala washed shirts for Baritone Danilo Checchi, who was stopping at another hotel. Favero pawned some of her jewelry, cried: "The first time I go to the jewelers to sell and not to buy. Maybe I get a mask and gun and go out Chicago style to get some money. This experience never was in the program...
...their share of the credit should be, Capra and Stewart couldn't have made "It a Wonderful Life" by themselves. It takes quite a supporting cast to seem good in the face of a performance as awesomely fine as Stewart's, but Donna Reed, Henry Travers, and Lionel Barrymore do so throughout. Barrymore, incidentally, is the villain of the piece, a senile banker who lives only to make everybody, especially Stewart, miserable. The plot of the picture consists of Stewart's battle to keep him from succeeding...
...away, explore far, exotic places and make his name in the big city. But family and dull duty hold him down to his father's piddling building & loan business. With a sense of deep frustration, he plunges into his small-town rut, half-angrily marries the girl (Donna Reed), battles the villainous local banker (Lionel Barrymore), befriends his fellow men, shoulders the whole town's troubles. When he winds up, despite all his do-gooding, broke and disgraced, he seriously considers throwing his "useless" life into the river...
Temptation (Universal-International) comes about as close as the Johnston Office will permit in letting Merle Oberon get away with murder. Adapted from a musty Robert Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
Helen Traubel at 43 is a prima donna in technique but not in temperament. A hearty, buxom woman with auburn hair and green eyes, she is as relaxed as a double-jointed shortstop. According to her husband, she is so chronically good-natured that "no one is ever quite sure whether she is stupid or lethargic." She was born above her father's drugstore in the old German section of South St. Louis, and brought up in so deeply Germanic an environment that she still punctuates her conversations with...