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...grossing stars:* Jennifer Jones is rated (with just one picture -Duel} as a $10,750,000 star; Gregory Peck, with two pictures, rated an $8,000,000 average as a customer-puller; Linda Darnell (with one), $8,000,000; Gary Cooper (with one), $7,500,000; Teresa Wright (with two), $7,200,000; Dana Andrews (with two), $6,875,000; William Powell (with one), $6,250,000; Irene Dunne (with one), $6,250,000; Bing Crosby (with one), $6,100,000; Larry Parks (with...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's tense and rather too tricky courtroom tale of a woman's trial and a lawyer's error; with Gregory Peck surrounded by supporting stars (TIME...
...Paradine Case (Selznick) stars Gregory Peck as a gifted, happily married English lawyer who falls in love with the client he is defending. Mrs. Paradine (Valli) is accused of poisoning her blind husband, and Lawyer Peck recklessly sets out to pin the crime on the dead husband's valet (Louis Jourdan). In his infatuation for his client, he is incapable of imagining that she may be guilty. In his jealousy, he suspects an affair between the valet and the accused lady. Making a headlong effort to defend her, he brings on a suicide and his own virtual ruin...
...Gregory Peck turns in the first performance that may trouble his well-wishers. Although he has worked exceedingly hard to become an Englishman (he studied a recording of an Anthony Eden speech), he remains unmistakably American in appearance and bearing. A tremendously cagey and accomplished actor might conceivably have made a convincing character out of this attorney, in spite of the inadequacies of the script. Peck is not yet cagey or accomplished enough. He carries his trial scenes with considerable style; and he comes close to some first-rate acting in his difficult crack-up scene. But his lawyer...
Gentleman's Agreement. A slick argument against antiSemitism; with Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck (TIME...