FOREVER AMBER (1947) **1/2 Back, way back, before rock bands and Hollywood, the pretty and promiscuous had to sleep their way to the top with captains and highwaymen and aging counts and...dare I say it...the king! Entertaining Kathleen Winsor romance novel with the heat turned down (by Ring Lardner Jr.) for public consumption, but the heavy acting talent is kept in the wings with a few lines each (Anne Revere and Jessica Tandy). Linda Darnell nor Cornel Wilde is particularly believable in their rolls as star-crossed lovers in a field of beds, but that's just as well as credible acting would have been wasted on a wilfully incredible plot. Otto Preminger makes sure that things flow smoothly considering and strangely enough you're left with a sense of the time, whether accurate or no I can't say. I wasn't there.