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Princess Catherine, pretty young daughter of the late King Constantine of Greece, turned up "incognito" in Hollywood, wanted to visit studios. Sigvard Bernadotte, grandson of Sweden's King Gustaf V, who was disowned for marrying a commoner and now works as a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, took her to see 300 pies and 200 cream puffs thrown at a cinemactor. Gasped Greece's Catherine to Sweden's Sigvard: "My goodness, how I envy you! I wish I had a job here...
...Indiscretion (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) investigates the marital mishaps of the Lenhart family, Robert (Paul Lukas), Eve (Helen Vinson) and small Bill (David Jack Holt). Eve runs off with a worthless scion. Robert becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds...
Naughty Marietta (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Victor Herbert's 25-year-old operetta, revived as the vehicle for the first important cinema performance of Baritone Nelson Eddy. It concerns a French Princess who, to avoid a manage de convenance to a Spanish grandee, disguises herself as a peasant girl and joins a boatload of female emigrants whom the King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying...
Vanessa: Her Love Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), adapted by Hugh Walpole from his own novel, is an earnest, lachrymose romance of the Jubilee Era, slightly oversold on its message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down...
After Office Hours (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When she enters the combined boathouse, garage, workshop, countryseat and rendezvous maintained by the villain of this picture, Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett) is favorably impressed. She casts a glance at her surroundings and says to her host: "Nice, nice, nice...