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Let's Make It Legal

At the Kelth Memorial

By Howard L. Kastel

"Let's Make It Legal" is a lawyer's nightmare and a layman's trauma. A Grade C boff at best, the plot concerns divorce, an old suitor, and a former husband, plus the usual welter of theatrical cliches.

Moviedom has given the eternal triangle a steady beating for the past fifty years, but it still has some shape left. A few more productions like "Let's Make It Legal" will flatten it for good.

Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, and that old Romeo Zachary Scott ride the merry-go-round with as much levity as they can muster, but the trip is too bumpy, the pace too slow, and the verbiage too heavy. In short, "Let's Make It Legal" is a terrible show.

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