Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

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(April) SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON — Universal: In this episode, the famous sleuth, played by Basil Rathbone, and his faithful friend Doctor Watson, Nigel Bruce, block Nazi agents in their attempt to steal the four separate parts that make up a secret British bombsight. Lionel Atwill, as usual, plays the enemy. (April) ^SILVER SKATES— Monogram: One of the best skating revues yet produced. The work of ice star Belita is show-stopping and the clowning of Frick and Frack on ice is a riot. Kenny Baker sings engagingly and Patricia Morison as his real heart and owner of the show is so good. (April) y'V'SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS— M-G-M: Romance' in the comedy manner, with Lana Turner as a smalltown shopgirl who goes to the city, buys herself a new personality and then meets a mishap that leads to an impersonation. Robert Young is the boy in love with Lana but not quite sure just who she is. Walter Brennan is the wealthy man who accepts her as his long-lost child. (June) ^SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT— Columbia: Janet Blair comes to the fore with a neat, provocative pertormance as the young songwriter who gets shoved into the star spot of a show angeled by gay divorcee Cobina Wright Jr. Don Ameche is the press agent, lack Oakie an old vaudeville star, and William Gaxton the show's producer. It's gay. (May) y^^/SPlRIT OF '43. THE— Disney: This Donald Duck short subject was produced especially for the Treasury Deparment and has Donald working in a defense factory and torn between spending his money and putting it away for income taxes. Fascinating submarines, tanks, planes and battleships parade across the screen. (April) \SSTRAKGER IN TOWN, A— M-G-M: Frank Morgan is a Supreme Court Justice who goes on a vacation and meets local attorney Richard Carlson, who's running for Mayor. Through Morgan's advice Carlson eventually ousts the crooked opposing party. Porter Hall is the smalltown judge and Jean Rogers the very pretty girl in the case. (May) TARZAN TRIUMPHS— RKO Radio: Tarzan (still Johnny Weissmullerl puts on a one-man blitz when the Nazis attempt to overrun his domain. Frances Gifford, princess of a lost civilization, provides the feminine interest. Johnny Sheffield is Tarzan's son. (May) \/THEY GOT ME COVERED— Goldwyn-RKO: Bob Hope is the none too bright foreign correspondent brought home from Russia after missing a scoop. When he goes to visit his girl, Dorothy Lamour. in Washington, he becomes embroiled in a spy ring, a phony wedding and honeymoon with Marian Martin and a beauty parlor mix-up. Newcomer Lenore Aubert scores heavily. Plenty of fun. (April) THIS LAND IS MINE— RKO-Radio: Charles Laughton as the timid schoolmaster overridden by mother love surpasses anything he has done on the screen. Una O'Connor as his mother is terrific. Maureen O'Hara is the schoolteacher Laughton loves. George Sanders her fiance who turns traitor and Kent Smith her brother. They, as well as Walter Slezak as a Nazi, deserve applause. (June) \/THREE HEARTS FOR JULIA— M-G-M: Ann Sothern is a member of an all-girl orchestra who resents the absences of her foreign correspondent husband, Melvyn Douglas, so Lee Bowman and Richard Ainley. both in love with Ann, persuade her to di voice Douglas, who has his own ideas on the subject. (April) TRUCK BUSTERS— Warners: All about the battle between independent and organized trucksters. with Richard Travis resisting the efforts of Don Costello and his mob of organized racketeers to run him out of business. Don't waste your time. (April) \/T\YO WEEKS TO LIVE— RKO Radio: When Abner, played by Norris Goff, is erroneously told he has but two weeks to live, his partner. Liim, played by Chester Lauck, decides to rent him out for hazardous ventures. Rocket ships to Mars, bombs in a violin case and Nazi plots befall Lum before he finds the doctor has committed an error. (May) YOUNG AND WILLING — U.A.: A group of penni less boys and girls, ambitious to be stage stars, share an apartment in order to exist. Unbeknown to play wright Robert Benchley they dig up one of his old plays and put it on. William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Susan Hayward and the others shouldn't be wasted on such trivia. (May) \/YOUNG MR. PITT. THE— -20th Century-Fox: As pure entertainment, this biographical tale of the career of the English prime minister leaves much to be desired. It is. however, beautifully acted and historic ally interesting. Robert Pon.it plays the conscientious Pitt. Robert Morley his opponent. Phyllis Calvert the girl he loves and Raymond Lowell is George III. (June) ^YOUNGEST PROFESSION. THE— M-G-M Laugh and enjoy yourself over this story of auto graph hounds, with Virginia Weidler, president of a fan club, seeking autographs at all costs. Edward Arnold plays her long-suffering lather and the guest stars who are very neatly placed in the story are Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, William Powell, K.'bnt I nlir and I. ana Turner. iM.iyi