PRESENTING LILY MARS
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S a nice change from scenes of the white-haired vicar being shot in the back and a Nazi having pepper thrown in his face and his head bashed
in with a chopper by the village postmistress, I can recommend the story of Lily Mars (Judy Garland), the stagestruck little girl who Made Good on Broadway and married the Great Producer (Van Heflin). There isn’t a sudden death or an oration on democracy or even a War Bond in it; just a pleasant means of escape for one evening by the back-stage entrance. And: for one evening at least that’s permissible. And though I prefer Mr. V. Heflin as Tennessee Johnson-motion carried with one dissentient, see last week-I like him all the time, and he teams up well with Miss Garland. It’s a pity, though, that having broken the back-stage convention to the extent of having the great, lovestruck producer tell the little stage-struck girl that he’s changed his mind after all (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) and she really isn’t quite ready to take the leading lady’s part in the new show (and she isn’t either, not by a long way), M-G-M have to go and put the convention together again. There, one scene later, is Miss Garland, miraculously blossomed forth as the Greatest Actress Since Duse. She looked exactly the same to
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 243, 18 February 1944, Page 18
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230PRESENTING LILY MARS New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 243, 18 February 1944, Page 18
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