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Backstage baffler: The theater provides eerie atmosphere as Jane Wyman helps Michael Wilding solve a murder
Family competition: There’s music and gaiety in Brazil when Ann Sothern and Jane Powell vie for Barry Sullivan
^ (A) Stage Fright (Warners)
DEPEND on Jane Wyman to deliver a deft performance whether in drama, comedy or thriller. Her latest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is designed to tingle your spine and tickle your funny bone.
Jane is completely captivating as a stagestruck English girl who becomes implicated in a juicy murder. Richard Todd drags her into the unsavory affair when he confides that the police suspect him of the crime. Seems Todd merely lent a helping hand to his actress-sweetheart, Marlene Dietrich, whose spouse met a most untimely end. Complications pile up and you get to meet all kinds of interesting people, including detective Michael Wilding. Todd scowls attractively; Marlene is at once amorous and glamorous. All told, it’s first-rate entertainment.
Your Reviewer Says: Chills and chuckles.
(A) No Man of Her Own (Paramount)
II/ HEN a girl gets into as much trouble as Barbara ft Stanwyck, it’s mighty nice to have a guy like John Lund around.
Barbara is about to become an unwed mother when a train wreck sends her to the hospital. Through a mix-up she is identified as the daughter-in-law of a wealthy couple who never met her. Barbara seizes the chance to provide a good home for her fatherless babe. Soon “brother-in-law” Lund gets “that gleam” in his eye only to have Barbara’s ugly past pop up in the person of Lyle Bettger. As a despicable heel, Bettger is a standout. Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter, Richard Denning and Carole Mathews are also featured to advantage.
Your Reviewer Says: Stanwyck suffers.
^ (F) Nancy Goes to Rio (M-G-M)
SUPPOSE you were an irrepressible seventeenyear-old like Jane Powell, and your actress-mother was a gorgeously gowned blonde like Ann Sothern? And suppose you not only wanted to play the same part in an exciting new play, but had your heart set on marrying the same man — Barry Sullivan? It would be kind of awkward, wouldn’t it?
Janie bounces about, merely pausing long enough to sing a song or two. She’s an artless child one moment, an artful female the next. Sothern is poise personified. After all those menacing male roles, Sullivan gets a chance at comedy and he comes through nicely. Sultry Carmen Miranda contributes a couple of specialty numbers. Louis Calhern and Scotty Beckett round out an amiable cast.
Your Reviewer Says: Colorful and gay.
By Elsa Branden
/// Outstanding Good V Fair
F — For the whole family A — For adults
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