Hollywood (1942)

Important Pictures [Continued from page 66] Ginger Rogers colorful role in Young Man of Manhattan. Ginger returned to the Paramount lot — and to baby talk — for her new film, The Major and the Minor. She's an unsuccessful careerseeking young girl in New York who resorts to the masquerade of a 12year-old in order to get back to her Middle West home for half fare. When the conductor on the train becomes suspicious of her, she hides in the compartment of Ray Milland, a major from a military academy. He insists oh taking her back to the school with him for a few days, and Ginger runs into all manner of situations, due to her disguise. Eventually, of course, Milland learns the truth, but not before a very merry movie has unwound itself. Ginger is convincing in her 12-year-old get-up, both in appearance and actions. Robert Benchley furnishes several amusing sequences, and Lela Rogers, Ginger's mother, appears briefly, but effectively, in the role of Ginger's mother. THE PIED PIPER *** Twentieth Century-Fox gj The Pied Piper is a quiet, moving story of an unwilling hero's trip across France with a brood of children during the spring of 1940. There is no romance and little exciting action, yet it is a film you will enjoy seeing. Unlike the Pied Piper of the legend, the hero of the movie is an unwilling magnet for children. Monty Woolley portrays the title role. He's a crusty old Britisher, whose only son has been killed in the war. He is fishing in southern France when the Nazis invade Flanders. Against his will, he promises to get two children safely back to England. During his trip across the country, he somehow manages to collect various other unfortunate youngsters. While slow in spots, The Pied Piper is on the whole a warm and human film. FOOTLIGHT SERENADE ••1/2 20th Century-Fox | Betty Grable has been making consistent progress up the star ladder of late, but Footlight Serenade sets her back several rungs. An implausible, unmotivated story is indifferently enacted by a cast whose actions seem to say: "Well, we got stuck in this one; let's get it over with." Victor Mature instills a certain amount of vigor into his role of an egotistic prize fighter who turns actor, and Phil Silvers is funny in a rather laborious fashion. His clowning — anfl the generous display of Miss -Grable's incomparable legs — are about all we can recommend in Footlight Serenade. THEY FLEW ALONE *•*/£ R-K-O-Radio 9 The career of British flyer Amy John• son Mollison was certainly a spectacular one and seemed better-than-fair material for a screen biography. However, the picturization drags and is slow throughout. The leading role is ably portrayed by Anna Neagle, while Robert Newton is very good as Jim Mollison, the husband to whom she was so unhappily married. Air-minded Americans will enjoy the film; the average audience will find it only mildly entertaining. JOAN OF OZARK **!/£ Republic ■ Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown team up for a fairly amusing little comedy in which most of the glory goes to Judy. As an Ozark hillbilly, she shoots a pigeon one day while out hunting. It turns out to be a carrier for local Nazi spies. The spy chief in New York orders Judy disposed of, and Joe E. is the man sent out to do the job by persuading Judy to accept a night club engagement. From then on, there's action and plenty of clowning, plus [Continued on page 74] These maids look more like three little girls from the red schoolhouse than a trio of glamour queens from a film studio. But that's how Brenda Marshall, Joan Fontaine and Joyce Reynolds romp through a good part of Warners' The Constant Nymph. 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