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...first teamed up, not to write but to rewrite a new book for Anything Goes, which subsequently became an Ethel Merman smash hit. After two more musicomedy successes, they pined for words without music, set about dramatizing Life With Father. The script aroused so little enthusiasm that Alfred Lunt, Roland Young, Walter Huston all turned down the title role. Lindsay himself finally took the part...
Director William Dieterle has frankly set out to pull the customers' heart strings like so much taffy. This time his expert hand has slipped. His craftsmanship is submerged in an inept script. Even Claude Rains, generally a likable and competent actor, has script trouble. Referred to throughout the film as a wise and witty caricaturist, Mr. Rains's caricatures look worse than mediocre, and he has been given nothing either wise or witty...
...Script of Christ, which for some reason seems to have been dictated in the inspirational style of the late Aimee Semple McPherson. In the other, the book's title piece, Shelley proclaims the news that "GOD IS." There is also a sort of undertaker's garland of poems written since Shelley "passed over." Many of them, like From the Death of the Skylark, are unfortunately fragments. Sample...
...light operatic vein). Her waking existence involves a rich theatrical playboy (Franchot Tone), the youthful owner (David Bruce) of an all-night diner and six ill-clad orphans who play it for pathos. Susanna Foster wades into her role with breathless enthusiasm, bubbling and flaring as the script demands. Her ardor is not shared by Franchot Tone, who goes about his post-adolescent lovemaking with one eye on the lady and the other on the time clock...
...Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind of setup [as Vienna], isn't it?") and, as director, imports famed Moviemaker Friedrich Bergmann, who is forced to take the job because the Nazis have smashed...