Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

Important Pictures [Continued from page 79] RANDOM HARVEST (M-G-M) Cast: Greer Garson, Ronald Colman. A picture of warmth and tenderness that everyone will love. James Hilton's novel appears on the screen as one of the great pictures of the year. Superb performances by a superb cast. ROAD TO MOROCCO (Paramount) Cast: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour. The latest of the side-splitting Road series is the funniest yet. Bob and Bing vie for Dottie's affection in an African locale. Loaded with laughs. THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (R-K-O) Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright. The life •tory of Lou Gehrig, who rose to the heights of baseball glory only to meet a tragic death at the pinnacle of his fame. Teresa Wright is outstanding as Mrs. Gehrig. Babe Ruth makes his screen debut as himself. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (Warners) Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston. A rousing tribute to that grand old man of the American theater, George M. Cohan, portrayed by Cagney who was never better. All the famous Cohan songs. BETWEEN US GIRLS (Universal) Cast: Diana Barrymore, Robert Cummings, Kay Francis, John Boles. Diana Barrymore's first starring role gives the talented young actress opportunity to play a variety of roles ranging from a 12-year-old youngster to the ancient Queen Victoria. Diana is remarkably good. CASABLANCA (Warners) Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. An exciting yarn with a North African locale that is newsworthy. Story concerns smuggling of refugees out of Europe. The terrific cast and plot make this outstanding. HOLIDAY INN (Paramount) Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale. Great entertainment bubbling over with Crosby's crooning, Astaire's dancing and Irving Berlin's melodies. All about an inn opened only on holidays. Excellent performance by a talented newcomer, Marjorie Reynolds. MY SISTER EILEEN (Columbia) Cast: Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair, Brian Aherne. The adventures of two small-town girls in Greenwich Village, N. Y. A comedy tale that everyone will love. NOW, VOYAGER (Warners) Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid. A psychiatric study of a frustrated, dowdy woman who transforms herself Into a glamorous figure, and falls madly In love with a man she can never have. Stark drama. TALES OF MANHATTAN (20th CenturyFox) Cast: Charles Boyer, Rita Hay worth. Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda. Star-studded film depicting adventures of a tail coat as it is handed down from one character to the other, bringing fortune or disgrace to the wearer. Each episode of the story is complete in itself. The huge and glittering cast is awe-inspiring. THE BLACK SWAN (20th Century-Fox) Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders. A blood and thunder adventure story of the Spanish Main in the days of the buckaneers and pirates. Fast action and brilliant color photography. THE MOON AND SIXPENCE (United Artists) Cast: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley. The story of a man who scorned society by leaving his family, breaking up other men's homes and running off to the South Seas to devote his life to painting, only to be destroyed by his own obsession. THE NAVY COMES THROUGH (R-K-O) Cast: George Murphy, Pat O'Brien, Jane Wyatt. A splendid salute to the brave boys of the Merchant Marine is this exciting yarn of a gun crew on a sub-chasing expedition. THE PALM BEACH STORY (Paramount) Cast: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea. A delightful comedy with a merry plot about a girl who set out to capture a millionaire and then changed her mind. Preston Sturges at his best. THUNDER BIRDS (20th Century-Fox) Cast: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton. Thrilling Technicolor picturization of the air corps in training. Filmed at the Thunder Bird Air Field in Arizona. Gene is breathtaking in color. *•* FOR ME AND MY GAL (M-G-M) Cast: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly. Judy was never better in this story of vaudeville and 82 the first World War. Introduces Gene Kelly, who has a big future. Songs and dances. GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE (Warners) Cast: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan. A city slicker and his wife move into a country farmhouse and the result is an amusing comedy situation. ICELAND (20th Century-Fox) Cast: Sonja Henie, John Payne. Just to watch Sonja Henie twirl over the ice is worth the price of admission. An adequate story but secondary to the skating sequences. JOURNEY FOR MARGARET (M-G-M) Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Young. A weepy film of war-blitzed England and the effect on the children there. Margaret O'Brien turns in a thrilling performance as one of the youngsters. JOURNEY INTO FEAR (R-K-O) Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles. A melodrama of intrigue and espionage in a hodge-podge of American engineers, Turkish diplomats and Nazi spies. LIFE BEGINS AT 8:30 (20th Century-Fox) Cast: Ida Lupino, Monty Woolley. Spotlight on Woolley in this drama of a father-daughter relationship and the daughter's sacrifice until love came by. ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON (R-K-O) Cast: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant. Against the background of the Nazi conquest of Europe, Cary and Ginger spend a merry honeymoon with a third party — Ginger's husband. Cary is captivating. ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING (United Artists Release) Cast: Hugh Williams, Eric Portmann, Pamela Brown. This is a Britishmade film which United Artists are releasing in this country. It's a war picture, exciting in spots, with good performances by the entire cast. PITTSBURGH (Universal) Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott. Wayne and Scott again fight it out for Dietrich; this time it's in a coal mine. Fast action and a good yarn. SEVEN SWEETHEARTS (M-G-M) Cast: Van Heflin, Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt. A tulip festival provides the setting for a delightful film concerning the efforts of seven lovely sisters to find husbands. SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU (M-G-M) Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling. Gable's last film for the duration teams him again with Lana in a fast-moving picturization of the war in the East and the last days of Bataan. SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES (20th Century-Fox) Cast: Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero. Entertaining musical featuring the swing of Harry James. Technicolor. Carmen Miranda is a stand-out as a comedienne. TAKE A LETTER, DARLING (Paramount) Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray. Plot concerns a woman executive and her male secretary with ensuing complications. Comedy fare with Roz carrying off the honors. THE AVENGERS (Paramount) Cast: Hugh Williams, Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr. Norwegian resistance to the Nazis is depicted, climaxed by a Commando raid on the coast of Norway. Fair action shots. THE GAY SISTERS (Warner Brothers) Cast: Borbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gig Young. The rather heavy story of the three Gaylord sisters, their trials and tribulations in marriage and their attempt to regain the family fortune. Engrossing and well performed. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (R-K-O) Cast: Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten. Orson Welles' second film doesn't measure up to his Citizen Kane. Slow-moving, rather depressing story of a spoiled young man. Agnes Moorehead shows possibilities. WAKE ISLAND (Paramount) Cast: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey. The thrilling factual story of the heroic defense of Wake Island against the Japs. Very stirring. YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (Columbia) Cast: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou. Colorful musical romance in a South American setting. Highlighted by Astaire s superb stepping. Noel Coward not only authored, produced and directed the magnificent English film, In Which We Serve, but played the leading role — that of a heroic British naval captain This is the greatest film to come out of the Second World War