Rangiotu Talkies
If “Vivacious Lady” brought you nothing more than Ginger Rogers in her top flight performance (her portrayal of the night club girl Trnneoy in this picture) aud James Stewart at the best of his brilliant if brief career (as the young college professor) it would still be one of the season’s distinguished cinema attractions. But here, in addition, is a screen play packed with hilarity and frivolity —gay with that spontaneous gaiety that sweeps an audience into spasms of mirth —and undershot with a misty sentiment, wistful and tender, and with a drama that draws tensely to a grave impasse; “Vivacious Lady” enlists your sympathies and grips your interest, lifts the heart with merriment and twists it with pain. Deft acting backs the sighspot performance of the two stars —with James Ellison, Beulah Bondi and Charles Coburn contributing importantly—and the story is one of those Hollywood-moulded things that fits perfectly the requirements for a screen success! Here is a picture.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 154, 3 July 1939, Page 9
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162Rangiotu Talkies Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 154, 3 July 1939, Page 9
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