A hundred million movie-goers must be right... (1938)

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just given it is bound to arouse a widespread challenge, particularly among the ladies, and because 65% of the movie audience is supposed to be made up of the gentler sex perhaps we haven't been entirely fair to that tenderest and loveliest of all emotions. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to see a movie that could arouse as much favorable comment as My Man Godfrey or The Three Smart Girls or Holiday with the pursuit of romance as the main sympathetic pursuit, not hitched to a "desire to live" not as a menace, not inverted for laughs but straight as it was in Street Scene. 176