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Sorry, Wrong Number. Inflated but fairly exciting movie version of the radio thriller about a bedridden woman who learns that she is about to be murdered, with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster (TIME, Sept...
Sorry, Wrong Number. Inflated but fairly exciting movie version of the radio thriller about a bedridden woman who learns that she is about to be murdered, with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster (TIME, Sept...
...movie (like the novel) propounds the obvious: that when a poor man (Van Heflin) marries a rich girl (Barbara Stanwyck) her money is a problem. The passages satirizing Wall Street and the New Deal are so plainly extraneous and contrived that even the actors seem embarrassed. In the end, Right & Left are reconciled in one mighty smooch in a darkened Washington apartment...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...
...Miss Stanwyck, who does well enough with a tough, worldly kind of part, is baffled by the sleight of hand required for this one. Humphrey Bogart also appears uncomfortable. Violence and murder are old stuff to him, but madness and paintbrushes are not quite in his line. Little Miss Ann Carter manages to make a precocious child seem likable and attractive. Thanks to her, the picture is almost worth the trip...