Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

movie reviews cc^f^*^ taming of the shrew is thrown in, but Yvonne ends up with The Desert Hawk, even though it grieves her princessly soul to wed a blacksmith. (In between frantic kisses, she sneers, "blacksmith," which is the way I found out.) Technicolor. Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Jackie Gleason. — Universal-International. TEA FOR TWO What this movie has to do with the play called Wo, No, Nanette, I can't be positive, but the main character (Doris Day) in Tea For Two is named Nanette, and she has to go around saying "no" for 24 hours, so there is a connection. Doris is an heiress, and when she finds she can't back a show starring herself, and the music of Gordon MacRae, because her guardian-uncle thinks she wastes too much money, she makes Unk a bet. She'll say "no" for 24 hours, and he'll let her have 825,000 for the theatrical enterprise. Little does she dream he's already lost most of her cash in the stock market. Goofy story, but a lot of talented young players — dancer Gene Nelson is really good, and you can also get a look at Patrice Wymore (the lady Errol Flynn plans to marry), and Eve Arden is still drawling cynical sayings in her usual way, in case you go for that. MacRae's music is worth building a show around, all right, but why not? It was originally written by Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin, and a couple of other people. Technicolor. Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson.— Warners. STELLA Here's a delightful, delicious, original kind of comedy that never stops being fun for a single minute. First you meet the Bevins family. Ann Sheridan is Stella Bevins, and what she doesn't know is that her two loutish brothers-in-law (David Wayne and Frank Fontaine), who live off her when they aren't collecting unemployment checks, have just buried her equally loutish Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe's a souse; he'd attacked David, lost his balance, fallen and killed himself, but the boys figure who'll believe that story, so they plant the body, with the encouragement and consent of their wives. When the chief of police calls the boys down to identify the body of a guy who's been run over by a railroad train (the whole town has heard of Uncle Joe's disappearance), the boys know the train's victim can't be Uncle Joe, but they identify the corpse anyhow, because they've just found out Uncle Joe was insured for $20,000. A smart insurance investigator (Victor Mature) foils 'em, but they keep right on identifying every stiff that comes into the coroner's office as Uncle Joe, in the hopes of laying their hands on that insurance money. When they finally try to dig up Uncle Joe, and get the money more or less honestly, they discover they've laid him to rest in an old Indian burial ground, and they'll probably be digging for the next hundred years, before they come to the right remains. It sounds like an unsavory topic, but it's handled so well, and the picture's so hilarious, I don't see how anybody could be offended. The performances are swell (Mature gets Sheridan) and you'll laugh yourself silly. Casf: Ann Sheridan, Victor Mature, David Wayne, Randy Stuart.-— 20th Century-Fox. THE BLACK ROSE If you were a Saxon in 13th-century England, you'd still be smarting about the Norman conquest, and the Norman king. Saxon Tyrone Power, for instance, got no money, got no future, got an old granddaddy and an ancient castle is all, but he's so proud he can't even mention the word Norman without losing his lunch. He leaves the country to seek his fortune in the "almost legendary Far East," and he meets up with Mongolian war-maker Orson Welles, dressed in an $8,000 mink-lined leather coat, and he falls in love with a small half-breed (Cecile Aubry) who's being sent as a gift to Kubla Khan, and he has adventures that make Marco Polo look like Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire. The locations for this movie are really exciting — desert scenes were shot in French Morocco, historic English castles were used as sets, etc. There are several good English actors on hand, Cecile Aubry, the tiny French star, makes her American debut, and a supposedly Chinese gent known as "The Bird Who Feathers His Nest" comes up with the best Mexican accent since Pancho Villa. I don't know if this was supposed to be comic relief, but it's certainly funny. Cast: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cecile Aubry, Jack Hawkins. — 20th Century-Fox. BLONDES! ■ . . I .OUR*** . 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