Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

^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) ^SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT— Columbia: Janet Blair comes to the fore with a neat, provocative performance 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, Jack Oakie an old vaudeville star, and William Gaxton the show's producer. It's gay. (May) L/V SPIRIT 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) y^ ST AND BY FOR A CTIO N— M-G-M : Good war stuff, about how four men take over a destroyer. At sea they pick up a cargo of babies afloat in a lifeboat and eventually meet with a Jap battleship. The men are Charles Laughton, Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan. (Mar.) \S\/STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM— Paramount : All the Paramount stars are in this lavish musical — Dick Powell, Mary Martin. Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Veronica Lake, Paulette Goddard, etc. It tells how a telephone operator at the studio, Betty Hutton, in love with sailor Eddie Bracken, gets Victor Moore to pretend he's an executive when Eddie and his shipmates visit Hollywood. Fun. (Mar.) ^STRANGER 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 small-town judge and Jean Rogers the very pretty girl in the case. (May) TARZAN TRIUMPHS— RKO Radio: Tarsan (still Johnny Weissmullerl puts on a one-man blitz when the Nazis attempt to overrun his domain. Frances Gilford, princess of a lost civilization, provides the feminine interest. Johnny Sheffield is Tarzan's son. (May) \/THEY GOT ME CO VERED— 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) S/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 divorce Douglas, who has his own ideas on the subject. (April) TRAITOR WITHIN, THE— Republic: Don Barry is a truck driver whose wife, Jean Parker, is jealous of the heroism accredited to the town mayor, Ralph Bellamy. Her jealousy leads to blackmail and Don, who has gone up the ladder on the blackmail money, eventually finds himself behind liars. (Mar.) 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) i/TIfO WEEKS TO LIVE— RKO Radio: When Abncr. played by Norris Goff, is erroneously told he has but two weeks to live, his partner, Ltim, 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 Littn before he finds the doctor has committed an error. (May) \/WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME — Universal: Allan Jones, as the soldier hero who secretly rejoins old friends to avoid Maria Shelton and gets accused of being O.W.O.L., does some of his best work in this very good little musical. Jane Frazee is the singer, Evelyn and her magic violin score a solid hit, but young Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan ail but steal the show. (Mar.) X/YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER— Columbia: Romance in rhythm, with Fred Astaire an American dancer in South America. He meets Rita Hayworth, who think he's in love with her and falls in love with him, but Fred wants only to dance in her father's night club. The two stars' dancing numbers are marvelous, Adolphe Menjou is very good; so is Xavier Cugat's orchestra. (Mar.) YOUNG AND WILLING— U. A.: A group of penniless boys and girls, ambitious to be stage stars, share an apartment in order to exist. Unbeknown to playwright Robert Bcnchlev thev 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) \/\SYOUNGEST PROFESSION, THE— M-G-M : Laugh and enjoy yourself over this story of autograph hounds, with Virginia Weidler, president of a fan club, seeking autographs at all costs. Edward Arnold plays her long-suffering father and the guest stars who are very neatly placed in the story are Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, William Powell, Robert Taylor and I.rna Tt'-ner. (May) Inspired by the noble fragrance of a great perfume, "Bond Street" Beauty Preparations (for you, by Yard ley!) % make keeping your best face forward almost sinfully simple! 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