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Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...
...Keys of the Kingdom (20th Century-Fox), a handsome and heartfelt screen version of A. J. Cronin's bestseller, lacks the parochial authenticity, the comic pathos and the sagacious acting which made Going My Way the best of all movies about priests. But it is rather more attentive to religion, and its religiousness is not only free of pomp and sanctimony but is also human, dramatic and moving...
There are many good performances in The Keys-notably the sharply etched ecclesiastical portraits of Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Edmund Gwenn, and the disciplined, powerful performance of Austrian Rosa Stradner, a screen newcomer, as the nun. But the picture's biggest, toughest role is remarkably handled by 28-year-old Gregory Peck. He combines a bearing and demeanor that a matinee idol might envy (rather suggesting a sandpapered Lincoln) with a dominant naturalness. It is not surprising that he has no theatrical ancestry-his father is a San Diego druggist...
Winged Victory (20th Century-Fox), Moss Hart's crisply flamboyant salute to the Air Forces, comes to the screen substantially unchanged in cast, story and general feeling. Like the original play, it is as immaculately robust as if it had just stepped out of a barracks shower; indeed, it would gain considerably if it did not so often suggest a Boy Scout Jamboree. Like the original, too, it generates among spectators the sort of friendliness normally reserved for amateurs, since all of its male performers are Air Forces men and the profits go to Army charities. But every...
...playing Los Angeles, got them jamming on a Warner sound stage. Result: two numbers (On the Sunny Side of the Street and Jam Session) which, if not the best that hot players can do, are pretty certainly the most honest, down-to-earth popular music yet recorded for the screen...