Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 24, 1953

So This Is Love (Warner) is nearly, but not quite, as lively as Grace Moore's autobiography You're Only Human Once, on which it is based. Actress Kathryn Grayson does her best in impersonating the warmhearted lyric soprano who died in a European plane crash in 1947. In the beginning, she is riding on a circus elephant, and, at the end, she is standing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, taking the 28th curtain call for her debut performance as Mimi. From one Technicolored behemoth to another, it is pretty much the usual...

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