THE BLUE VEIL
(RKO-Radio)-HIS production’ by the Hollywood team of Jerry: Wald and Norman Krasna (of a screenplay by our old friend Norman Corwin) has a bunch of well-known names at the mast-head-Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Carlson-but it is in fact a» marathon performance by Jane Wyman, plus a handful of* small Ccharacter-studies on the side. Some of these smaller sketches are vivid enough (Joan Blondell’s is the best of them), but it is Miss Wyman who holds the centre of the stage. So far as she can, she makes this a satisfying picture, but ‘her talent, sound as it is, can’t produce figs from thorns, grapes from thistles, or any very solid drama from this sentimental story. As the dedicated "nanny," who spends her love and energy On other people’s children, her performance (from blooming youth to withered age) is one of those essays in gentle melancholy that draw tears from teenagers and tired mothers. Being a hardened viewer I did not weep, but I gave three loud sniffs for Mr. Corwin and his mushily sentimental ending.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 19
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183THE BLUE VEIL New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 19
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