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Back Street (Universal), last done in 1932, is noted in the trade press as a "four-handkerchief" movie. Fannie Hurst's dreary, solemn story of a woman's lifelong devotion to her lover succeeds in proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lot of an unmarried wife is hard and lonely.

Ray Smith (in the pre-Hitler version her name was Schmidt) is a small-town girl who misses marrying her man when she misses a rendezvous, later sets up housekeeping with him in Manhattan. Brown-haired, flop-eared Margaret Sullavan plays Ray with pixy charm almost to exhaustion. Charles Boyer plods through the whole thing with the detached air of a man whose mind is on something else. Most nerve-racking scene: Boyer on his deathbed, after a heart attack, struggling to articulate a last message to his ladylove--by telephone.

Come Live With Me (Metro-GoId-wyn-Mayer) is a farfetched, whimsical comedy about a struggling young author (James Stewart) who marries a Viennese refugee (Hedy Lamarr) to save her from deportation. Complication: the man Wife Lamarr really wants to marry is a publisher (Ian Hunter) who buys Husband Stewart's book. It is no surprise to anybody when, after making off with Hedy, Husband Stewart persuades her to change her mind.

Patterned after the sly last scene of It Happened One Night (when the walls of Jericho came down) is the blackout punch in Come Live With Me, as Hedy with a flashlight imitates a firefly. Point: the female firefly gets lit up to show she likes the male.

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