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Top-notch, virtuoso acting by Ginger Rogers, she was the number one as dancer actress and a fascinating comedian: ¨Monkey business¨ and won an Oscar for her portrayal in ¨Kitty Foyle: natural story of a woman¨. Main and support cast is frankly outstanding. This fresh and funny farce is one the last works where director Sam Wood shows an increasing blandness in a lighthearted love story with comedy touches. Later when she tries to rob an attractive diplomat(Jean Pierre Aumont) they fall in love instead. At the beginning she attempts out her skills on an old man(Adolphe Menjou). For all of these and other reasons, "Heartbeat" - though probably worth seeing - never hits its stride, and it delivers less than it could have.Ī young girl( a lively Ginger Rogers) escaped from a reformatory, becomes the best student in a Parisian school for pickpockets(ruled by Basil Rathbone). Adolphe Menjou was an ideal choice for the unprincipled nobleman, but he has to contend with some clunky dialogue in his part. Basil Rathbone is well cast as the 'professor' at the crime school, and there are some amusing details in his classes and teaching methods, but all of the sequences in the 'school' are essentially just elaborations on the basic gag idea. The story is pure fluff, deliberately implausible but with some good possibilities, and it would likely have worked better with a lighter, more farcical touch all around.
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The story starts with Arlette, a reluctant enrollee in a school for petty criminals, getting roped into a scheme by an unscrupulous aristocrat that plunges her into a series of romantic and personal complications, as she develops a tangled relationship with a diplomat played by Jean-Pierre Aumont. In any case, the character never quite rings true. The character is not really as interesting as the situation, and Rogers often seems to be trying too hard. Rogers was easily one of the more attractive and talented actresses of her era, but the role of Arlette just doesn't seem to work for her. But it seems to go in too many different directions at different times, and perhaps as a result, it has a few stretches of good material packed amidst some longer, less interesting parts. The story idea was only mildly imaginative, but it had the potential for some decent comedy and entertaining romantic mix-ups. The cast, headed by Ginger Rogers and including some fine supporting actors, certainly supplied plenty of talent. Despite having some talent and material to work with, this feature produces just a few good moments, and it never really comes together the way it might have.