THE GIRL WHO HAD EVERYTHING

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 16

THE GIRL WHO HAD EVERYTHING

(M.G.M.) ‘THE Girl is Elizabeth ia and the title is slightly hyperbolical. She may have most of the things which go to make the Good Life as it is interpreted in the advertising sections of che smart magazines-good looks, snappy clothes which she wears with the outré charm of the splay-footed lovelies in the fashion pages, streamlined surroundings, and the heady warmth of masculine devotion. But one ‘doesn’t need to be a Freudian to recognise that there are other and more prosaic commodities -like commonsense and self-control-which she does not possess. What, p haps, she needs most of all (and F doesn’t perceive this until it is too late) is a stern measure of parental discipline. I could not, however, become greatly concerned at what might happen to Miss Tavlor in this depressing and occasionally sordid screen play. But I was irritated to see William Powell, a polished actor who has given me much pleasure in the past, wasted in a part (that of an ageing attorney with a gangster client) which allowed so little scope for his talents. I was delighted with his showing in Life With Father; I think most filmgoers were, That was in 1948. I haven’t seen him satisfactorily employed since then.