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Actors And Sin

1952, Movie, NR, 85 mins

Actors And Sin: Review

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The first half of this two-part film, "Actor's Blood," presents Robinson as an esteemed Shakespearean actor who fiercely guides and protects the career of his actress daughter, Hunt. A temperamental prima donna of great talent and even greater vanity, she loses her friends, her husband, and her career through savage tantrums and then, gloomily assessing her wrecked career, takes poison. Her father believes she has been driven to her suicide by ruthless coactors and producers, and he makes her death look like a murder, later inviting detectives to a party with notable guests, telling the cops that one of the guests is the killer. The lights go out momentarily, and police find Robinson dying from a stab wound. With his dying gasp he blames someone in the perplexed crowd, but police soon realize that he has killed himself to cast suspicion on all and to vindicate his daughter. The guests, in a bizarre scene, applaud the old actor's last performance. The second half of the film, "Woman of Sin," is much less muddled and more lighthearted than "Actor's Blood." A typical Hechtian roasting of Hollywood and its conniving functionaries, it stars Albert as a worldly agent too good for any client. He reads a screenplay titled "Woman of Sin" and laughingly rejects it as nonsense. But once a studio mogul mentions his interest in the script, Albert drops his suave manner and races pell-mell after the author, whom he discovers to be a little girl of nine, Jenny Hecht (Ben's daughter). In a frenetic and masterful bit of acting, Albert doubles and then triples the price of the script while doggedly keeping the obnoxious little author under wraps and promising the moon to actors and technicians alike, right down to the movie's premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. This is a side-splitting segment, especially when Albert is busy outwitting the pompous mogul played by Alan Reed. Jenny Hecht, about the most annoying little girl to ever invade filmdom, is perfectly cast by her father. leave a comment
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