PICTURE FILMS.
ST. JAMES THEATRE.. “Sundown” (George Sanders, Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot) will have its final screening this evening. Whimsical comedy and haunting music mark “I Married an Angel,” Broadway stage hit in which Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy make their latest screen appearance at the St. James Theatre at two sessions tomorrow and finally on Wednesday evening. This musical invades the realm of fantasy. Eddy, as a wealthy playboy, dreams he marries an angel. Except for beginning and end, the musical deals with his dream and is staged in the fantastic way in which dreams are often experienced, as contrasted to the “waking hour” episodes, which are played and staged realistically. Jeanette MacDonald plays the angel who in the dream gets her earthy spouse into all manner of comical complications, Song hits are arranged in musical sequences, almost like miniature operettas and lavishly staged. A spectacular surprise party, a. great reception, and celestial episodes are used to introduce such songs as “The Man in the Street,” “I Married an Angel,” “Paris in • Spring, “Paris Honeymoon Suite,” and others sung by Jeanette and Nelson.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 212, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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