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Divorced. By Cinemactress Gene (Laura) Tierney, 31, who claimed that "he didn't give me a dime in ten years": Manhattan Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, 38; after 10½ years of marriage, a rift in 1946-48, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...after this promising start, Convict Lake turns into a routine western, with Convict Glenn Ford gunning for the man who framed him and being reformed by the love of a good woman (Gene Tierney). When the prospectors come back over the mountain, the stage is set for a good deal of indiscriminate bloodletting during which Ford gets his man and inherits his girl, and one of the convicts, Rapist Richard Hylton, is pitchforked to death by the aroused women...
...when the title was "The Red Cat." Don Ameche made a movie of its entitled "Folies Bergere" in 1941. The gimmick is Kaye, the night-club performer, impersonating Kaye, the greatest aviator since Lindbergh. The complications involve a multi-billion franc financial deal, a beautiful, half-clothed wife (Gene Tierney), and a beautiful, half-clothed dancing partner (Corinne Calvet). The plot is so involved that it deserves no more serious attention than it gets. But even its incredibility is worked for laughs...
Kaye's wonderfully mobile face and his incredible sense of timing are still his main stock in trade. His best performances in "On the Riviera" are a clever dance-pantomime song about "Popo the Puppet," a series of doubles entendres with Miss Tierney, and the airport reception for Capitaine Henri Duran...
Kaye's performance and a slick script get new humor out of a farce formula that was old when Plautus (254-184 B.C.) was young: the identities of the impersonator and the impersonated become snarled up until neither the Frenchman's wife (Gene Tierney) nor the American's girl friend (Corinne Calvet) are quite sure which is which. The confusion leaves wife Tierney frantically trying to figure out whether she has been faithful to her husband, sends the dialogue into neatly charted pyramids of double-entendre...