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Once again the screen presents the woeful problem of a settled married couple lifted from their wedlock by an unhappy legal circumstance. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is the story of a man and wife with marital tribulations of more than ordinary calibre. Decked out with an unusually insinuating script, and Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard to talk it up as they and few others could, it lacks only some action to make it one of the best bits of bedroom propaganda of the year...
Before winning through (in 2,100 scenes), Heroine Gifford gets into and out of 15 of the dad-jamdest scrapes that the Republic script department could imagine...
Last week, once more demonstrating that there is room for sensitivity as well as soap in radio script shows, crack Producer-Director Corwin put his hand to another feature called 26 by Corwin. In the first program, a bantering radio ABC, Author Corwin elfed blithely through both the alphabet and a broadcasting studio...
...drifting along on the wave of her success and ends up by overcoming her self with the courage of a truly great actress. The story is not half so deep as this might suggest, but Miss Skinner does manage to add something more substantial than is apparent in the script, and builds it up to an impressive tribute to the theatre in her final exit off the stage and into the aisles...
...just enough of both slap-stick and character acting to make it a super-streamlised example of the plot-dialogue comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns the clash between...