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Sunday, May 12, 1985
10:00PM
Three Wise Girls
Three small-town innocents--Jean Harlow, Mae Clark and Marie Prevost--play “how to marry a millionaire” in Manhattan with mixed results in this morality play that's all in fun. “City audiences will appreciate the general trend and country cousins will approve the moral lesson,” Variety predicted in 1931. But even with dialogue by Capra-collaborator Robert Riskin (Platinum Blonde, etc.) the subtext does a lot of the talking in this early talkie: if gingham and the soda fountain appear to win in the end, splendid gowns and imposing sets make a pretty convincing case that when money speaks, people listen.
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