Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

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No other germicide kills germs any faster or more thoroughly. Zonitors kill every reachable germ and keep them from multiplying. Follow easy directions. , i Mail this coupon for FREE booklet sent in plain WW"-.*?: veals frank intimate facts. Zonitors, Dept9130-B. 370 Lexington Avenue, Hew York 17, N. Y. Nome — Address. City _State_ I'LL BE SEEING YOIJ The most important thing about "I'll Be Seeing You" is probably not the fact that it has a scene where Shirley Temple gets a little bit tight. But when I think of the days of "Little Miss Marker —tsk! tsk! time certainly marches on! Shirley s role is only incidental to the main love story, that of Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten. It's a love story in which boy is kept from getting girl by two inescapable facts. A Boy is a psychoneurotic case on leave from an Army hospital. B— Girl is on Christmas vacation from prison.^ If that "vacation from prison business sounds a little odd, just remember that prisons aren't like they used to be, and wardens are learning psychology. Mary (Ginger Rogers) is a well behaved prisoner who has served four years of her sevenyear term. The warden thinks she should begin to adjust herself to the outside world again. Mary is guilty of manslaughter, in the eyes of the law, although its difficult to see how she could have avoided doing what she did. She was working in an office, and her boss invited her to a party. When she got there, she found she was all the "party" there was. The boss was drunk and on the make, and in the ensuing struggle he fell out of the window. If it had been a first floor window, no one would ever have known anything about the incident. But it was the fourteenth, and Mary was, in the eyes of the law, the cause of his death. Zach (Joseph Cotten) is a psychoneurotic case because he has been a good soldier. Too good. He did his job and killed a lot of Japs, and finally his system couldn't take it any longer. He cracked up. He and Mary meet on a train. They both have ten days, but Zach doesn't know where Mary is from or that she has to go back He only knows she gives him such a feeling of calm support that he wants to stay near her. So he gets off with her at the small town where she s going to visit her aunt and uncle, the Marshalls. The Marshalls have a daughter, Barbara (Shirley Temple). At seventeen, you re inclined to dramatize things, and Barbara regards Mary as definitely an outcast from society. One day she talks too much, and the delicate, beautiful love affair which has begun between Zach and Mary is shattered. Still, it might be possible to pick up the pieces, if two people cared enough. — U.A. P. S. A brand new motion picture institution is launched with the release of this picture. It's Vanguard Films, Inc., which is offering "I'll Be Seeing You." . . . Ginger Rogers has the fashion tables turned on her. Had to step down from her sartorial platform and let Shirley Temple climb up to be glamorized. Ginger, as a prisoner on Christmas furlough, couldn t have much of a wardrobe variety. . . . Speaking of Christmas furloughs for convicts— Vanguard, seeking information on such a plan from parole boards, discovered its being widely discussed, pro and con, in all of the forty-eight states. . . . Specialists at Hoff General Hospital at Santa Barbara were called in as technical advisers on scenes dealing with Joe Cotten as a returned soldier, victim of psychoneurosis. TOMORROW THE WORLD Can a boy reared under the Nazi regime ever be a decent citizen by American standards? That problem is presented with fascinating realism in this picture made from the Broadway play. The remarkable performance of young Skippy Homeier is responsible for much of its INFORMATION DESK (Questions of the Month) By Beverly Linet Hello: Gosh, Christmas already! It doesn t seem possible that so much time has elapsed since I gazed longingly at the beach ads and sort of wondered why my office didn't sprout an adjoining swimming pool. But time has flown, and a lot has happened since then. I've seen scads of new pre-release pix and premieres, and have discovered some terrific new up-andcomers. Have patted Trigger, taken cowgirl tintypes with Janie Withers, rubbed shoulders with Joseph Cotten at an opening night, and run plunk into Orson Welles in my rush to get to the movies. I was even present when that villainous character threw those eggs when our Frankie was appearing on the Paramount stage. So, isn't there something you want to know? If yes, just drop a line with that stamped, self-addressed envelope to Beverly Linet, Information Desk, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New York. Luv, Bev. Ethel Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y.: WHY IS IT WHEN I REQUEST PIX FROM THE STUDIOS AND STARS, I NEVER RECEIVE THEM? . . . Due to the severe paper shortage, all the studios are unable to distribute free photos, with the exception of M-G-M, which sends out 3 x 4's. However, if you wish photos from any studio, include 25c with your request for size 8 x 10, and 10c for 5 x 7's. Florence Shack, L. I.: MAY I HAVE LON McCALLISTER'S ARMY ADDRESS? . . . It's agin' studio rules to spout service and home addresses, but since Lon is not at any camp now (he's touring in "Winged Victory"), you can best reach him at Box 2990, Hollywood, California. appeal. He is aided by such expert craftsmen as Fredric March, Betty Field and Asnes Moorehead. Joan Carroll is effective as the small girl who tries to teach the Nazi boy sportsmanship. . She has very tough going indeed in her attempt. Emil Bruckner has lived his twelve years in Nazi Germany He has nothing but contempt for the softness and stupidity of these American relatives who take him into their home. He regards his uncle Michael (Fredric March) with curiosity and his cousin Pat (Joan Carroll) with condescension. She is a girl, and girls are not important in the Nazi world. Emil is shocked to find that his uncle is engaged to a Jewess. Leone (Betty Field) is an attractive, intelligent school teacher, but Emil can't understand how Michael can marry a member of an outcast race. He decides to break up this attachment immediately. It is odd how slow the members of the household are to realize the sinister character of their visitor. Perhaps it is because in America boys of twelve are occupied with baseball or making toy airplanes, not spy work and doctrinization. Only Frieda the German cook, sees the danger. Emil ingratiates himself with his aunt Jessie, and she soon is on his side against Leone. He even persuades his uncle, who only sees him on his best behavior that he is becoming Americanized. So Michael is shocked and angry at Leone's increasing antagonism toward the boy. 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