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Briggs and Dave Fish-playing his first match since Princeton-fell to Custer and Vincent LaCava at third doubles...
...match is close, coach Barnaby may insert Dave Fish with Briggs or Brock to play against Custer and Vincent LaCava at third doubles...
...Unfinished Business" is the kind of picture people are talking about when they blast Hollywood for wasting its best talent on inferior material. It's directed by one of the top men in the industry, Gregory LaCava; it's got Robert Montgomery and Irene Dunne, two sure-fire bets for a successful film, in the lead spots. And it still doesn't click...
...that this trio doesn't keep up its batting average; it's simply that this time they're playing in the bush leagues. The LaCava touch is still evident, and in places it's beautiful to watch. Montgomery plays to perfection the role of a neurotic playboy, which lie should be pretty familiar with by this time. Miss Dunne is as convincing a small-town girl as if she's just fought her way out of a load of hayseed. But when these three are tossed together in a story that's as depressing as it is dull, the result...
...vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after reading the script LaCava left the lot. Andrea Leeds, a bit player, announced that she would rather starve than play the minor role for which she had been cast. Soon thereafter a large part of the Goldwyn organization filed into the boss...