ALFREDTON TALKIES
“VIVACIOUS LADY.” If "Vivacious Lady” brought picture patrons nothing more than Ginger Rogers in her top-flight performance (her portrayal of the night club girl Francey in this picture) and 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, and undershot with a misty sentiment, wistful and tender, and with a drama that draws tensely to a grave impasse. “Vivacious Lady” enlists the sympathies and grips the interest, lifts the heart with merriment and twists it with pain. Deft, acting backs the highspot performance of the two stars — with James Ellison, Beulah Bondi and Charles Coburn assisting. The story is one of those Hollywood moulded things that fits perfectly the requirements for a screen success. The picture will be shown at Alfredton tomorrow night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1939, Page 7
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