The Big Pond (Paramount). This is another film that has been tailored—far less elaborately than The Love Parade—to the measure of Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier's ability to convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter—Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a...
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