REGENT THEATRE
"THE GOBGEOUS HUSSY" With brilliant acting performances trom such screen headliners as Joan Cranford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Eranchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas and James Stewart, "The Gorgeous Hussy" screens to-night at the Regent Theatre as one of the finest pictures to come from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Perhaps the most notable high-light of the pieture is the teaming of Miss Crawford with Robert Taylor, the most talked about film discovery since the first appearance of Clark Gable. Also outstanding is the characterisation of Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United Statcs. In an almost uneannily lifelike makeup Barrymore gives a portrayal of the fiery and inuch maligned Jackson that must be listed as the greatest of his career. The story of "The Gorgeous Hussy'/ deals with the tempestuous Pcggy O'Neal, tavern-keeper 's daughter who shockod the staid society of Washington at the age. of fifteen aiid continued through a startling career which lcd her into .the centre of life on Capitol Hill. It is, Miss Crawford 's most ambitious role and proves her to .be one of the screen 's finest actresses The unusually godd array of shorts ibeludes a- Robert Benehley coraedy "How to be a Deteative"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 5
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