Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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LET'S DANCE Mother love in Technicolor, with Betty Hutton as the girl who kidnaps her own son from his snooty great-grandmother's Boston house, and takes him to New York, where she plans to get a job and support him. Betty's husband, father of the child, was killed in the war.) Betty meets Fred Astaire, an old pal, in New York, and he gets her a job in a nightclub. He's nuts, is the only trouble. Instead of concentrating on his dancing, he keeps wanting to be a business man, goes around trying to sell the Brooklyn Dodgers to big tycoons. His various enterprises come to naught, so Betty refuses to marry him on several occasions, and then some of great-grandma's lawyers track Betty and child down and try to remove child from Betty's custody because a night-club is no place to bring up a baby, even if he is learning French from the chef. Betty nearly elopes with Shepperd Strudwick, but Fred foils that, and there's a happy ending. Dance numbers are good, song numbers are good, picture's bright and sunny, though it seems exceptionally long. Cast: Betty Button, Fred Astaire, Roland Young, Ruth Warrick. — Paramount. SHAKEDOWN Howard Duff is a photographer without a heart. If a man is drowning Howard'll take his picture, and then go away without throwing the poor guy a rope, and the blub-blubblub echoing in his ears is as sweet music. He wants more money than a photographer can legitimately make, so he does blackmailing on the side, manages it so crook Lawrence Tierney has to pay him off S25.000 as a starter. (He took a picture of Tierney robbing a department store.) When Tierney plants a bomb in crook Brian Donlevy's automobile (these two crooks are deadly enemies), Howard stands by and watches as Brian gets in and blows up, even though Brian's been good to him. Howard wants Brian's wife, and besides, what a picture trtrrt OTnlnciftn mrrV-ect Mdtjt T zfa mrtnn^ino Suddenly, breathtakingly, youil be embraced . . . held . . . kissed. Perhaps tonight. Be sure that you are always lovely to love; charming and alluring. Your deodorant may make the difference. That's why so many lovely girls depend on FRESH Cream Deodorant. Test FRESH against any other deodorant — 5ff which stops perspiration . . . prevents odor better! FRESH is different from any deodorant you have ever tried — creamier, more luxurious, and really effective! por head-to-toe protection, use new FRESH Deodorant Bath Soap. Used regularly, it is 20 times as effective as other type soap in preventing body perspiration odor,