Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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City. .State. 18 I Married A Communist: John Agar swallo alluring Janis Carter's Marxist sweet-talk. Robert Ryan and Laraine Day are also involved. along fine with the laboring classes, and appears to be in clover. But the party never forgets. It sends Christine Norman (Janis Carter), Ryan's old flame, to tell Ryan he can still be useful. "Don't come to terms with the union," the party orders. "We want San Francisco shipping tied up for a couple of months." Ryan says nuts. The Communists obligingly bump off a traitor before his very eyes. See? "I'm going to the police," Ryan says, "and make a clean confession of my past." The party reminds him that his past includes murdering a shop steward during a strike some years back, and the electric chair looms in front of him. He's licked. He'll foment the strike. Now Christine goes to work on Laraine's young brother (John Agar). Soon brother's standing up and spouting Communist philosophy. The party kills him, spout or no spout (he finds Christine made a fool of him) and then the party kills Christine because she appears to be going soft (she really loved Agar). And then the party kills Ryan (but first he kills the party, or at least Thomas Gomez and William Bailey, the party representatives in San Francisco). You should see the three of them all dying on the warehouse floor! Before he expires, Ryan leaves Laraine in the loving protection of labor leader Richard Rober, who's always wanted her. "You were meant for each other," Ryan says, or some such thing. And the shipping strike in San Francisco is over. Amen. FATHER WAS A FULLBACK Cast: Fred MacMurray. Maureen O'Hara, Betty Lynn. Natalie Wood. 20th Century-Fox There was never a man so plagued as Fred MacMurray. He's the coach of a college football team which can't win a game. They're willing; they're just not able. He's the father of two daughters, Betty Lynn and Natalie Wood, and one of them (Betty) has a fixation about her own ugliness. Thinks she's poison to the boys. Asks for dinner on a tray in her room, because she wants to be alone with her great sorrow. Even the maid (Thelma Ritter) bets against Fred's football team, and the only comfort in his life is his wife, Maureen O'Hara. Rudy Vallee, the head of the alumni association, keeps making threatening noises about Fred's job, the U. S. government sends pamphlets to Fred's house Oh, You Beautiful Doll: June Haver fancies song-plugger Mark Stevens, who's helped to moke hit songs from her father's serious music. about the care and feeding of babies (this leads Fred and Maureen to think Betty's an unmarried mother) and to complete Fred's misery, he gets hold of a confessions magazine in which there appears a story by-lined by Betty. (Since she can't get a man, she's decided to be a career woman.) "I Was a Child Bubble Dancer," the article is called. Besides being a child bubble dancer, Betty has other talents. She saves her father's job, anyway, and in a most unusual fashion. This picture's good-natured fun. OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL Cast: June Haver. Mark Stevens. S. Z. Sakall, Charlotte Greenwood. 20th Century-Fox Fade in to a self-conscious beginning. Bartender J. C. Flippen is looking nostalgically through his pictures of old-time song writers. "So-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so," he says. "And then there was Fred Fisher. Ah, yes, a guy named Breitenbach wrote all his music." "Whaaat?" cries a nearby blonde. "Shut up," snarls an earnest reporter to the blonde. "I wanta hear this." You wanta hear it too? Okay. Seems this Breitenbach (S. Z. Sakall) is a great composer. Opera. Long hair. His wife takes in sewing. His daughter (June Haver) studies violin and piano. And they're starving to death. (The family, not the violin and piano. ) Breitenbach meets a song-plugger named Larry Kelly (Mark Stevens) who explains the facts of life. Take the good melodies out of your fusty old opera, jazz up the rhythms, collect royalties. The melodies he takes from Breitenbach's opera are transformed into songs called "Peg O' My Heart," "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine," "I Want You To Want Me," etc.. and published under the made-up name of Fred Fisher. ( BreitenbachFisher didn't write "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," the title tune. Some other great composer must have beat him to it.) Well, soon Fisher-Breitenbach is rich, but unhappy. He wants to be known as a serious artist. Daughter Junie is unhappy too. She loves song-plugger Kelly, who appears to love singer Gale Robbins. Kelly doesn't really love Robbins, though. He's just waiting for Haver to grow up so he can marry her. Breitenbach-Fisher finally runs away from home to escape from popular music, but famous conductor Eduard Franz helps the family get him back. Franz announces all