FILM CALLED “GREATEST” OF WHIMSIES.
A scrappy screen star combination in the season’s greatest laugh sensation! Joan Blonde!! and Melvyn Douglas skylark through a high-spirited comedy in the mad, merry manner of “The Awful Truth” and “The Thin Alan” to stand Now York’s “cafe society” on its ear! “There’s Always a Woman has been heralded by Hollywood critics as the funniest picture ever made. Based on a popular magazine story by Wilson Collison and adapted to the screen by Gladys Lehman, “’there’s Always a Woman” offers a grand story and a great cast. Alary Astor, Frances Drake, Jerome Cowan and Robert Paige support the popular co-stars. Alexander Hall directed. The St. James Theatre’s forthcoming attraction concerns the madcap antics of a bewildering blonde trying to prove to her detective husband that he “doesn’t know from nothing.” A thin thread of mysstery weaves through ‘the zany story, accentuating the criss-crossing warp of nonsense and woof of laughter.
popular heroes on the screen? The Louis Joseph Vance character has figured in silent films from as far back as 1917, and in talkies. His most recent screen adventure, “The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt,” with Warren William as the suave international thief and Ida Lupino co-featured as a charming young woman determined to wed the man. “The Lone AVolf Spy Hunt” is the first in a projected new series of Lone AVolf films planned bv Columbia. AVarren AVilliam will play the title role and Aliss Lupino, it is expected, will continue her matrimonial intentions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 44, 1 December 1939, Page 3
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