Claudette Colbert, Ameche And Lederer

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 174, 26 July 1939, Page 11

Claudette Colbert, Ameche And Lederer

ARE FORTUNE HUNTER, TAXI DRIVER AND PLAYBOY (Regent: Coming soon). Claudette Colbert, as an American fortune hunter stalking her prey in international society, Don Ameche, as a taxi-driver who unexpectedly changes her grandiose plans, and Francis Lederer, as a handsome and gold-dripping Paris playboy—these are the romantic leads in “Midnight.” Claudetto Colbert plays “Eve Peabody’ 7 a third-rate dancer with firstrate ambitions, who ouo dazzling night, meets and falls in love with a hardboiled taxi-driver, crashes an exclusive party with a pawn ticket as her admission card, sweeps tho town’s A 1 playboy off his feet and turns into a

“countess” to get along-better in a snobbish world. “Eve’s” campaign to win herself jl wealthy husbuud takes a hopeful turn when a Paris businessman, John Barrymore, whom she meets at the party, enlists her aid in restoring domestic happiness to his badly-shaken homo. His wife, Mary Astor, is engaged in a flirtation with a handsome playboy, Lederer. If Miss Colbert will make a play for Lederer, Barrymore will foot the bills. But the greater Miss Colbert’s success the more she wonders why she ran away from tho cab-driver, Ameche, who made such a dent in her heart. Although her daring and cleverness enables her to out-wit the “doubting Thomases” who challenge her “title” and her motives, she realises she has been too successful when Lederer proposes to her. It’s now up to Ameche, who arrives as tbo “countess’s” “count” at a Versailles house party, to straighten things out. The latest advice ou current studio activities in London in connection with important productions for G.B.D. shows that: “Doctor’s Dilemma,” by George Bernard Shaw is now in preparation, and will be produced by Gaoriel Pascal who produced “Pygmalion. 77 Graciu Fields is scheduled iu “Shipyard Sally,” a story concerning the building of tho “Queen Elizabeth,” and likewise in “Sam and Sally” or “Hinuie Wakes 77 with Will Fyffe. “Hangman’s House,” Donu Byrne’s story with George Sanders and the Gate and Abbey players, and that old favourite j “Charley’s Aunt,” are also in preparaticn.

Edward G. Robinson, haunted operat ing rooms of hospitals in order to learn how to go through tho motions of being a. neurological surgeon in preparation for playing the titlo part in “Tho Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse.”