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...Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...
...company, a flair for making fast action stories without wasting too much money, a knack of originating trends. To Warner Brothers salesmen in Atlantic City last fortnight. Major Albert Warner, in charge of distribution, told what his brother Jack, in charge of production, had prepared for 1934-35; Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores Del Rio in Farewell to Shanghai; journalistic investigations of bicycle racing. Boulder Dam, roadhouses. traveling...
...Barbara Stanwyck as "Gambling Lady" successfully plays her way through an unusually complex plot. Her father, Mike, the "last of the honest gamblers," commits suicide, in preference to turning dishonest, when he goes broke. Lady Lee gets a job with a crooked gambling syndicate and despite all temptations, she always plays on the square. While playing poker for the syndicate, on Park Avenue, Lady meets wealthy young Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), who falls for her and pursues her everywhere, even after she goes to jail for the crooked dealings of her syndicate. Finally she marries him, only to find...
Gambling Lady (Warner). The heroine of this picture is a talented professional gambler named Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck). She plays cards honestly but she always wins. Her social life is even more improbable. When her father dies she refuses, though penniless, to marry a jolly but unscrupulous bookmaker (Pat O'Brien). When she meets a callow socialite named Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), she falls in love with him immediately and marries him soon afterward...
Intrinsically, Gambling Lady is as absurd as it sounds but the honesty of Barbara Stanwyck's performance is as successful as that of the heroine's card playing. Good shot: Lady Lee's amazement when her husband requests her to give back to Sheila Aiken the jewels she has won at vingt...