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Lady courageous: Margaret Sullavan conceals tragic illness from her family, Natalie Wood, Wendell Corey
TV tickler: Celeste Holm, an expensive distraction, keeps Ronald Colinan’s mind off the $40,000,000 question
^ (A) No Sad Songs for Me (Columbia)
THIS poignant and profoundly moving film brings back to the screen the very charming and talented Margaret Sullavan. Her role, that of an attractive young woman doomed to die of cancer, is indeed tragic, and she invests it with superb sincerity.
Margaret has everything to live for, a fine husband in engineer Wendell Corey, and a lovable daughter in Natalie Wood. Theirs is a completely happy home life. Given only several months’ reprieve by her sympathetic but helpless doctor, John Mclntire, every minute becomes precious.
A somber tear-stained story, it takes an unusual twist when the stricken wife paves the way for her glowingly healthy successor, Viveca Lindfors. Such nobility may seem hard to swallow, but Sullavan somehow makes it believable.
Your Reviewer Says: It touches the heart.
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^V2 (F) Champagne for Caesar (Popkin-UA)
QUIZ shows and Big Business get quite a going-over in this satire.
Ronald Colman gives a sly, tongue-in-cheek portrayal of a walking encyclopedia blessed with a keen sense of humor. Genius though he is, Ronald loses out on a forty-per-week research job with soap magnate Vincent Price. With malice aforethought, Colman appears on Price’s quiz show and runs the jackpot into a fabulous fortune. The problem is to get rid of him before he bankrupts the company.
Celeste Holm is at her prettiest, but not her wittiest, as the Delilah whom Price hires to distract Ronald. Price burlesques his role outrageously; Barbara Britton pleases as Colman’s lovelorn sister.
Your Reviewer Says: Enjoyable nonsense.
^ (F) The Tattooed Stranger (RKO Pathe)
A GIRL is found murdered in a parked car. The only clue to her identity is a tattooed anchor on her arm. It’s up to the police to find the killer and the motive for the crime.
Told in semi-documentary style, this entertaining whodunit introduces several newcomers to the screen. There’s tall easy-going John Miles as a young college-trained detective, who quickly catches on to the tricks of his trade. To make his work pleasant, there’s Patricia White, a botanist who not only has a good head on her shoulders, but a pretty one too.
Among the featured players are Walter Kinsella as a hard-boiled police lieutenant, and captain Frank Tweddell in charge of the case.
Your Reviewer Says: Join the manhunt.
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