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...gooey molasses of the Jeanette MacDonald - Nelson Eddy team Dorothy Parker's script has added just enough vinegar to make "Sweethearts" a fairly enjoyable picture. The more cynical element in American movie audiences will be astonished to find that with good direction, a good script and a good supporting cast, the MacDonald - Eddy team can put on a fine show. Of course there're the customary shots of Nelson Eddy in a soldier's uniform and Jeanette MacDonald's exotic larynx, but underneath it all is a subdued smirk. At last Hollywood is beginning to realize that the Great American...
...great W. C. Fields, whom Charlie (Bergen) consistently outgagged, whether Fields stuck to the script or not during their five and a half months together on the program, really wanted to demolish Charlie (not Bergen). There was a genuine, jealous glint in the old fellow's eye when he once threatened: "I'll carve you into a Venetian blind." "Oh Mr. Fields," minced Charlie, "you make me shudder...
Amidst the ceaseless stream of Western melodramas flowing annually from the pens of Hollywood script writers, there are a few really first-rate productions. Such a picture is the "Oklahoma Kid." Somehow the hackneyed plot about the outlaw who "goes straight" has been given a unique twist, resulting in eighty minutes of fast moving, swashbuckling action. James Cagney comes through with a thoroughly convincing performance in the title role. Besides looking like a true cowboy, Mr. Cagney shows a depth of character portrayal unusual for pictures of this type. Humphrey Bogart does a fine job as a leering and scheming...
Wife, Husband and Friend (Twentieth Century-Fox). Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Cesar Romero in a domestic comedy rescued from complete mediocrity by a few neat twists in Nunnally Johnson's script...
Back to the circus, where he belongs, is W. C. Fields in his latest movie, "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man," now showing at Keith Memorial Theatre. Fields puffs and wheezes his way through a second-rate script that almost submerges the beauties of his alcoholic capers. Luckily Charlie McCarthy, with stooges Mortimer and Bergen in tow, gives the picture a hypodermic of crackling dialogue that saves it from going to sleep on its feet...