Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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our g \xVAe to By Rahna Maughan All About Eve 20th Century-Fox WHICH is more the saga of that li'l ole serpent who fouled up the Garden of Eden, than about how sweet Anne Baxter climbs from a stagestruck girl to becoming the winner of the theatre's highest award. Sweet, gentle Annie is brought backstage one rainy night by Celeste Holm in order that the starry-eyed young thing might meet Broadway's leading lady, Bette Davis. Emotional, highstrung and terribly in love with the play's director, Gary Merrill, Bette is so moved by Anne's pathetic story of her life that she takes the girl under her wing. Better she should have cuddled a stray H-bomb to her maternal breast, because of the near devastation Anne wreaks: by highlighting Bette's temperamental faults, panting on Merrill's neck, almost ending Celeste's marriage to playwright Hugh Marlowe, and in general having the same effect on the people who befriended her as a double shot of hemlock. The only person able to outdo Anne is critic George Sanders. The dialogue in this masterpiece of a film about modern theatre folk is as freely racy as the story is superb, and Bette is terrific in a role that should have happened to her a long time ago. Aging actress Bette Davis won't believe Gary Merrill still loves her in "All About Eve." Mister 880 20th Century-Fox FBI trouble-shooter Burt Lancaster takes over one of the strangest counterfeiting investigations in the files of the U.S. Secret Service. For ten years, the Government has been after the unknown Tyrone Power travels far, finding such wonders as Cecile Aubry, in "The Black Rose." counterfeiter who usually prints not more than $50 per month in one dollar bills which are printed on ordinary writing paper with the word WASHINGTON spelled WAHSINGTON. A lulu of a case and a lulu of a picture once junk dealer Edmund Gwenn appears and UN translator Dorothy McGuire starts acting like an underworld character to keep Lancaster's interests aroused. It's all wonderful fun, but gently tempered by an occasional tear over the naive Mr. Gwenn 's enchanting lawlessness. Trio Paramount THE long-awaited sequel to W. Somerset Maugham's "Quartet." Consisting of three separate short films, the first of these vignettes, The Verger is a delightful treatment of the old saying: everything happens for the best. Having served faithfully for 19 years as verger (a church attendant) , James Hayter is forced to resign because it's discovered he's illiterate. The results of this rather dreadful turn of events for the elderly gentleman are even more unexpected than was his dismissal from the church. Mr. Knowall, the second offering shows that he who laughs last, laughs best, Love comes to an ill-fated pair, Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie in "Sanatorium," one of the stories in English film, "Trio." Edmund Gwenn baffles the entire FBI with some financial transactions in charming comedy, "Mr. 880," with Dorothy McGuire.