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Attempting to prove the maxim that children make the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages, the film degenerates into a maudlin, slow-moving Hollywood case-history, which never seems to end. Cary Grant admirably performs the transition from slap-happy reporter to weeping father; and Irene Dunne--neither young nor undulating as she used to be--is passable as the sentimental mother...
...Lady Eve" has 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...
...Messrs. Shubert have brought back a well-dusted edition, replete with modernized lines that crack wise at Clark Gable's ears and Dot Thompson's voice and figures. It is one of those curious mixtures of slap-stick comedy and genuinely beautiful music, which doesn't shake up too well at times but which would find its justification if the cast were only to step out in front of the scenery and follow the orchestra through Rudolph Friml's famous score. The comedy does get pretty good in spots, and the immense Hope Emerson as Lady Jane, Don Gantier...
Thomason, hopping mad, construed this as a direct slap at him. Waving aside his editorial writer, Warren H. Pearce, he took a day off to write a return blast, titled "The Integrity of Words." Excerpts: ". . . We proved that Hitler who stands for everything Americans don't stand for, likes the things the Tribune said it stood for. ... The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...
...were fighting for single billing. Last year, he teamed with Come dian Bob Hope in Road to Singapore, although Hope's ad-libbing prowess was supposed to be worse than death for any other comedian within range. Bing held his ground, and the result was one of the slap-happiest comedies of the season...