FOREVER AND A DAY
(RKO Radio
}{ERE again there has been a most lavish expenditure of manpower, but this time it was for a worthy and_patriotic purpose, so any com-
plaints on that score would be out of order. In the production of Forever and a Day, seven directors and producers, 21 writers and 78 stars gave their services free. They were mostly British members of the Hollywood colony, and they did it in gratitude for American contributions to war relief in Great Britain. When the film is shown in New Zealand, the profits will be devoted to charity. Naturally perhaps, with so much talent at work, you do get a slight feel-
ing from the film of embarras des richesses. So many stars keep popping out and twinkling briefly that it becomes a kind of game trying to identify thema game which I hereby entitle cinemastronomy. But if there is rather too much of a good thing, it is still a pretty | good thing, this story in the Cavalcade style about an old house in London and the people who occupy it from the day itis built in 1804 bya fire-eating old admiral (C. Aubrey Smith), until it is wrecked by a Nazi bomb while the modern American hero and the modern English heroine and a crowd of Londoners are safely sheltering in its cellars. There is the admiral’s son (Ray Milland), who is killed at Trafalgar; the girl (Anna Neagle), who marries him after running away from her wicked guardian (Claude Rains); Ian Hunter and — I thinkJessie Matthews as the Victorian couple who make a fortune from irpn bath-tubs after. Sir Cedric aman and Buster Keaton (two: plumbers), have noisily demonstrated the possibilities; Edward Everett otal as a ‘crusty Edwardian; the coal-heaving Brian Aherne and the housemaidenly Ida Lupino, who emigrate to America; Robert Cummings as an American twig of the family in the Great War I. sequence after the house has been turned into a, private hotel accommodating Roland Young, Nigel Bruce. .Gladys Cooper (yes, I think that’s.who it was), and Merle Oberon. Then there’s Charles Laughton as a bibulous butler, Elsa Lanchester as a giggling maid. Herbert Marshall as a parson, and dozens of lesser luminaries whom ardent cinemastronomers will probably recognise and remember more successfully than I could.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 217, 20 August 1943, Page 21
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383FOREVER AND A DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 217, 20 August 1943, Page 21
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