Easy to Wed. Van Johnson, egged on by Lucille Ball, Esther Williams and Keenan Wynn, sings, dances and takes pratfalls in Technicolor (TIME, July 15).
Smoky. Expert Technicolor treatment of the Will James story, starring Fred MacMurray and a piece of beautiful, black horseflesh (TIME, July 8).
The Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman’s angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July 1).
Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl isn’t the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June 24).
The Stranger. Orson Welles directs and stars in a cunning conspiracy to scare the daylights out of folks (TIME, June 17).
To Each His Own. Olivia de Havilland suffers & suffers as an unwed mother in an expertly made, artfully played tear-jerker (TIME, June 17).
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