CURRENT & CHOICE

Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July 7).

Ivy. Joan Fontaine as an elegant Edwardian housewife who kills to get on in the world. (TIME, July 7).

They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young, Rita Johnson and Susan Hayward are respectively expert as a kept husband, his keeper, and the girl who doesn't get away with him (TIME, June 23).

The Web. A hard, neat murder melodrama, with Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines (TIME, June 23).

Possessed. Joan Crawford, Van Heflin and flashes of good moviemaking do a lot for a somewhat vapid psychiatric story (TIME, June 16).

Miracle on 34th St. A clever, sure-fire comedy about a man (Edmund Gwenn) who thinks he's Santa Claus (TIME June 9).

The Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Jean Renoir's sullen thriller (TIME, June 2).

Great Expectations. Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues do for Dickens what Laurence Olivier did for Shakespeare (TIME, May 26).

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