Return of Jean Arthur
When “You Can’t Take It With You” reaches the cinemas, thousands of fllmgoers will be seeing Jean Arthur for the first time for over a year. That's nothing to Jean, whose whole career has been a sixteen-year switchback. -She’s experienced the whole Hollywood gamut of promise and disappointment; leading parts that lead nowhere; absence; comeback; and the most sensational kind of success as the screen’s most popular and in-demand comedienne. There, on top of the film world, she ■walked out of it again. Rather than give In, in a quarrel with her studio, she remained idle for a year. We're glad to see her back in “You Can't Take it With You,” though only as one of a great cast. Her part isn't outstanding enough to hint whether she'll go up or down or Just mark time from there. Hollywood has plenty of parts to offer Jean. -But she’s choosey about stories and asks a stiff -yice. At the moment she Is busy in Columbia’s “Plane No.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20785, 21 April 1939, Page 4
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