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Show WILLIAM POWELL AND MYRNA LOY CO-STARRED IN KEY PRODUCTION "I Love You Again," a fast moving mov-ing comedy and the first in some time to co-star William Powell and Myrna Loy minus the '"Thin Man": tag, got under way recently at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. The film, which ranks as one of the funniest to come out of Hollywood Holly-wood in months, deals with a man, the pillar of righteousness and dignity, dig-nity, the leader of a small town community, com-munity, who, through a blow on the head comes to his senses only to discover dis-cover that the last eight years of his life are a complete blank. He has been suffering from amnesia. During this period he acquired both a wife and a brand new personality, neither of which he recognizes. That he had been a notorious confidence man before the untimely accident, makes the plot and the situations doubly amusing. . i A notable cast has been gathered for supporting roles. As the hilarious hilari-ous Doc Ryan, pal of Powell, Donald Don-ald Douglas, whose most recent appearance ap-pearance was in "The Return of Philo Vance," appears as Herbert, rival for Miss Loy's affection. The masculine contingent from "Our Gang Comedies" supplies side-splitting moments in several sequences of the film. "I Love You Again," promises a brand new type of characterization for Powell. The early portions of the film finds him far from his usual suave, polished, self. Instead his clothes are badly fit, he frowns upon card-playing and refuses anything stronger, in the beverage line, than grape juice mixed with ginger ale. The large elk's tooth, hanging from a chain across "his vest, is a perfect key to his interpretation of Larry Wilson, Habersam's favorite son. Myrna Loy, as the wife who seeks a divorce from Larry, as well as Ladies' Nights at his innumerable clubs, has a chance for a double dose of comedy. In one scene she is called upon to drape a platter of scrambled eggs over Powell's head. The new film is boing directed by W. S. Van Dyke II, produced by Lawrence Weingarten. The screen play was prepared by Charles Led-erer, Led-erer, Harry Kurnitz and George Oppenheimer. . |