Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1948 - Oct 1949
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
0001090
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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RED, HOT AND BLUE In a wild and delightful musical farce, Betty Hutton is given an ample opportunity to display her great and special talents. ■ The genius of Betty Hutton comes to full flower in Paramount's Red, Hot and Blue, the best picture that matchless pertormer has ever made. Without Betty, the film would still be a bright musical, with funny situations and dialogue and exceptionally clever songs. With Betty, it becomes one of the big treats of the year. Never idle a moment, she plays a light-headed but aspiring actress whose commercial ambitions ("I don't want to be Bernhardt, I just want to be me, with money!") are a constant grief to her true-love (Victor Mature), the starving director of an arty little-theater group with which, incongruously, her lot is cast. The plot is centered on her kidnapping by thugs after she happens to be the only witness at a murder. Head thug is played by Frank Loesser — who wrote the movie's music and lyrics. (He's the man to whom the nation is indebted for "Baby. It's Cold Outside" in Neptune's Daughter. ) If Loesser ever wants to leave song^writing — Heaven forbid! — he obviously can have a brilliant career as a comedian. On these pages. Modern Screen tells the story of Red, Hoi and Blue in pictures. Betty Hutton and Victor Mature find their ideals clashing but their affections meshing throughout a riotous, off-and-on romance.