Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 23, 1950

All About Eve. An expert, high comedy examination of Anne Baxter's climb, over the bodies of Bette Davis, George Sanders and others, from obscurity to Broadway stardom (TIME, Oct. 16).

State Secret. A British-made thriller about an American (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) running for his life in a convincingly pictured police state (TIME, Oct. 9).

The Happiest Days of Your Life. Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford in a farcical spoof of English public schools (TIME, Oct. 9).

Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt...

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