I told him how hard everyone worked to make such a beautiful movie, and I couldn't understand how he could be so cruel. I must say he took it awfully well, and was very kind to me." During the shooting of You Came Along, Hal Wallis showed Scott's screen test to Hollywood columnist Bob Thomas. Almost four months before the release of Scott's first film, his March 16, 1945 column was the first to make an unfavorable comparison between Lauren Bacall and Scott, thus beginning a critical trend to marginalize Scott in favor of Bacall: "Her throaty voice may well make Lauren Bacall sound like a mezzo soprano." Wallis told Thomas: "Notice how her eyes are alive and sparkling ... Once in a while she reads a line too fast, but direction will cure that. That voice makes her intriguing." The Thomas meme would continue to haunt Scott's reputation decades later. Despite the negative reviews by Crowther and Thomas, most critics of the period were positive, praising the film, Robert Cummings' performance and welcoming Hal Wallis' new discovery, Lizabeth Scott. Time described Cummings' performance as "almost flawless." See also Kiss Them for Me (film) Kiss Them for Me (play) References Notes Citations Bibliography Beck, Simon D. The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2016. . Billips, Connie J. and Arthur Pierce. Lux Presents Hollywood: A Show-by-Show History of the Lux Radio Theatre and the Lux Video Theatre, 1934-1957. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2011. . Branden, Barbara. The Passion of Ayn Rand. New York: Anchor, 1987. . Dietrich, Frank and Albert. Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension). New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. . Dick, Bernard F. Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. . Hannsberry, Karen Burroughs. Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1998. . Head, Edith.Edith Head's Hollywood. New York: Dutton, 1983. . Kael, Pauline. 5001 Nights at the Movies. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. . Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New York: Nabu Press, 2010. . Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia. New York: Dutton, 1994. . McDonald, Tamar Jeffers. "Engendering Change in Contemporary Romantic Comedy." in Abbott, Stacey and Deborah Jermyn, eds.