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While trying to bring love, or at least marriage, into her clients' lives, Broker Ritter develops a motherly interest in flighty Model Jeanne Grain, decides to match her on the sly (and at no charge) with another acquaintance, X-ray Technician Scott Brady. Each of the pair misconstrues the other's motives, andThelma's as well. What should be plain to all is that Ingenue Grain needs an acting refresher course and able Comedienne Ritter deserves a better script.
I'll Never Forget You (20th Century-Fox) is a remake of Berkeley Square, with Tyrone Power in the role played originally by the late Leslie Howard. In the new version, Power is a U.S. atomic scientist suffering from acute Anglophilia with historical complications. His yearning to live in 18th century England thrusts him mysteriously one evening into the Technicolored London of his ancestors.
Playwright John Balderston's old trick with time—turning his hero's hindsight into prophetic genius—is still a neat trick, and the new movie has some fun with it. But Actor Power lacks Actor Howard's charm and talent, and his inter-century romance with Ann Blyth (who turns up at the end in a 20th century reincarnation) makes something gooey and adolescent out of what once seemed hauntingly otherworldly. The picture may give moviegoers a yen to go backward in time themselves, if only to 1933, when Leslie Howard was starring in Berkeley Square.