Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film history. Mrs. Chips, alias Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres form the other two corners of the triangle with unexpected gusto. In fact the whole picture is a thoroughly delightful surprise...
...critics confirmed this in their reviews of "Night Must Fall" but the public was only bewildered to see good old light-hearted Bob playing a murderous bellhop. They laughed in the wrong places. Not this time, however. As the tension gathered, in the last half hour of the film and "Silky" Kilmount, now twelfth Earl of Galay, is condemned by his peers to be "hanged by the neck until he be dead" there were no laughs but plenty of noses being blown. It's good cinema with a dash of psychology thrown in. Montgomery plays the part of a gangster...
...young woman wearing flat shoes, high woolen socks, a dark blue slouch hat with brim pulled down, a dark blue coat. Busily unpacking Italian art masterpieces from the Golden Gate International Exposition were museum employes. Because flustered Allen Porter of the museum staff recognized equally flustered Greta Garbo, the film star saw the pictures a day before critics...
...lady in Eugene, Ore., where much of the film was shot, does not agree. Because black-bearded Abraham Lincoln once dandled her as a child on his knee, she was introduced to clean-shaven Actor Massey, but she angrily refused to sit on Massey's knee for RKO's publicity department. Reason: a clean-shaven Lincoln is a monstrosity. "Why don't you let him play the part?" she shrilled, pointing to a black-bearded extra. "He could do it better than the man you have...
...wrote a film version of Eve Curie's life story of her mother. Garbo was to have played it, but the story was shelved. Just completed, in collaboration with Jane Murfin, is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...