"...the Japanese settings are almost always pretty..."
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| With Sylvia Sidney |
Madame Butterfly - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"The plot of this film is taken from the Puccini opera and the incidental music is by the composer, but it does not attempt to be a reproduction of the opera. The story is not very suitable for this new medium, and though the long-drawn tragedy might be bearable if it were expressed in music or poetry, without any such embellishment it is apt to be painfully pathetic. Nevertheless, Miss Sylvia Sidney, who plays the part of the Japanese girl, acts with a grace and delicacy which are a great relief from this prolonged assault upon our emotions. And the Japanese settings are almost always pretty; an admirable use is made of what Swinburne called "the fortuitous frippery of Fusi-yama." Moreover, Miss Sidney fits so well into the setting that all the purely Japanese parts of the film have a certain style and consistency. But the intrusion of the American lieutenant (Mr. Cary Grant) has as disturbing an effect on the film as he had on the unfortunate Madame Butterfly. In fact, the inarticulate sentimentality of all the American characters seems to have been nicely calculated to sound a jarring note in this carefully constructed world of oriental conversion, and nothing is done to accommodate these two modes of feeling."
- The Times (London)
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| New Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36 - Number 7 - Madame Butterfly (Lobby Card Style) |
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