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Show 'Goddard, MacMurray Star In "Suddenly It's Spring" All the reports preceding the arrival of the new Paramount comedy, com-edy, "Suddenly It's Spring," indicate in-dicate that the film is everything implied in its title a gay, fresh, romantic riot. The love and laugh film, which opens next Sunday at the Rivoli theatre, co-stars Paul-ette Paul-ette Goddard and Fred MacMurray MacMur-ray and importantly features Mac-donald Mac-donald Carey and Arleen Whelan. Certainly the picture is a happy combination of proven talent in the field of sprightly comedy on the romantic side. For the stars, their latest release is said to be even more hilarious a romp than the fun they enjoyed in their hit of a few seasons back, "Standing Room Only." Oaude Binyon, for ten years the writer of the screen's smartest comedies, makes his bow a as producer-writer with "Suddenly "Sud-denly It's Spring," collaborating with P. J. Wolfson in the scrip-writing scrip-writing of the latter's original story. And the finishing touch is added by the direction of Mitchell Leisen, whose long list of screen triumphs include such spectacles as "Kitty," "Frenchman's Creek," and "Lady in the Dark." "Suddenly It's Spring" tells a story seasoned with plenty of spice and ginger. It concerns the efforts of Paulette Goddard, a WAC matrimonial mat-rimonial expert newly returned from overseas, to prevent the breakup of her own marriage to her law partner, Fred MacMurray. Paulette uses every feminine wile, including an enticing black negligee, negli-gee, to recover the love Fred now feels for red-headed Arleen Whelan. Whel-an. MacMurray, egged on by 'friend' Macdonald Carey, who would like Paulette for himself, is not averse to using'-a few tricks. In what is reported to be one of the most hilarious of the film's laugh-packed sequences, Fred sets out to make himself repulsive to Paulette and is so successful that she agrees to sign the divorce papers. From then on, it's up to Cupid to get on the job and straighten things out, and, it is said, Cupid was never funnier. |