I was just plain disappointed [with Jean and Walter Kerr's "Goldilocks"]. It is lavish and pretentious and good looking; it is occasionally extremely funny, with Jean Kerr lines, and much of it is melodious. But the story is woefully slight and unresolved and the general production lacks ingenuity. Probably like everyone else, I expected too much….

It struck me that [the] … rather wispy plot was soon lost in the weight of the production. There was no concentration on a cheering interest in either the girl, the movie man, or the intended groom….

I saw no reason, frankly, why the heroine should have become so fascinated by the director, or he by her, and I thought the subordinate love story between the millionaire and stand-in was equally obscure.

John McClain, "Splendid Cast Can't Salvage Meagre Book," in New York Journal-American (copyrighted 1958, Hearst Consolidated Publishers, Inc.), October 13, 1958 (and reprinted in...