Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 12, 1959

But Not for Me (Perlberg-Seafon; Paramount) is a new version of a slight Samson Raphaelson comedy (Accent on Youth) which first appeared on Broadway in 1934, and soon thereafter on the screen. Hollywood has packed a prize cast into the remodeled hull, but the craft is still so frail that only the acting mastery of Lee J. Cobb and Lilli Palmer saves it from capsizing.

Then too there is Clark Gable. No director has ever been presumptuous enough to ask "The King" to act, but his presence alone gives any film the atmosphere of...

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