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...Woman of the Year," first celluloid of Katherine Hepburn's since she swept stage and screen audiences off their feet with "Philadelphia Story," is something, though not too much, of a disappointment...
...main points of wonderment in "Two-Faced Woman" are how the director can keep the old mistaken identity theme from falling apart on the screen and how Garbo can do the same for her person after lo, these many years. Unfortunately, their attempts are not successful enough to make this much-publicized comedy so diverting as its original version...
Because it is virtually impossible to make current history credible on the screen, Joan is more melodrama than tragedy. But Director Robert Stevenson knows how to curl the hair: he moves his camera with breath-holding suspense through the Gestapo shadows of occupied Paris...
...Fifth-Column outfit, picks up a political consciousness and a good-looking refugee while he's at it, and winds up by doing his bit for national defense. Conrad Veidt is adequately sinister as the Nazi leader, but it's Peter Lorre who rings the bell again as the screen's number one menace. Without saying much, he manages to glide on and off the scene with a minimum of effort and a maximum of good solid horror...
Greta Garbo sat hidden behind a screen in a ballroom of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel last week to hear her good friend Bengamin Gayelord Hauser lecture to a roomful of A.W.V.S. socialites...