Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

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Then a famed violinist comes to town and Henry picks up his Stradivarius by mistake and Henry gets caught in a raided night club and, heavens to Betsy, it's awful. So, if you ask us, is the picture. Jimmy Lydon is Henry, Charles Smith is Dizzy. John Litel and Olive Blakeney are Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich and Marion Hall the music teacher. Your Reviewer Soys: Neighborhood fare. Colt Comrades (Sherman-U. A.) It's About: Hopalong tries to settle down. \A/ITH $5,000 reward money in his cow» V boy jeans, Hopalong Cassidy and his two pals, California (Andy Clyde) and Johnny (Jay Kirby), decide to buy a ranch and settle down with no more Hopping along. Like most land owners, Hoppy immediately runs into trouble. A meanie ties up the water rights, which nearly puts the three comrades out of house and home until they fortunately strike water on their own ranch. But when meanie Victor Jory almost succeeds in framing the boys as cattle rustlers, they find out what trouble really is. There's lots of gun play, fast riding and Western atmosphere to please the customers. Your Reviewer Says: Fair enough Cassidy story. ^ Heaven Can Wait (Twentieth Century-Fox) It's About: The life story of a philanderer told in retrospect. IT'S delicious! Gay, amusing, true to life ' and tragically real at times is this Lubitsch-directed yarn concerning the women in the life of a rich, spoiled but well-meaning husband. Not since his very first days in movies has Don Ameche been given the chance to reveal what a splendid character actor he is, going from youth to old age with remarkable agility. It's a double celebration, really, for Gene Tierney for the first time is given a worthy role and emerges — an actress. Gene has never been better or looked prettier. Because so many people requested him, in his lifetime, to go there, Don dies and goes to Hades. There he tells his life story to an elegant, frockcoated devil, played superbly by Laird Cregar, who listens attentively and decides Don's fate. There is, so many, many people will be relieved to hear, a sort of special place for halfway sinners. Don finds that place. Marjorie Main and her meat-packing husband Eugene Pallette are typical and ridiculous as the too-rich-for-their-owngood parents of Gene. Spring Byington and Louis Calhern as Don's adoring parents are so "life with fatherish," and Charles Coburn, as the grandfather, is an outsized riot. Signe Hasso, ze naughty Mademoiselle, Allyn Joslyn, the jilted suitor, Dickie Moore, as the adolescent Don, are all beautiful. We loved them every one. The dialogue, pretty and cute, preens and primps all over the place. In fact, here's the very thing you've been shopping for in that get-away-from-war-stuff movie. Your Reviewer Soys: A shiny bauble. ^ Dixie (Paramoun It's About: Hoto a singer and so»g rose to success. gING CROSBY plays Dan Emmett, the first of the great minstrels to rise in the South, and this story of his loves, struggles and final success is an interesting one, packed with songs, music and entertainment and lavishly filmed in Technicolor. Crosby, as the struggling songwriter, is in love with Marjorie Reynolds. When he accidentally burns down her father's home he leaves the small town to earn enough money to marry her. When Billy De Wolfe, an actor and gambler, cheats him of his little horde of money on a steamboat, Bing follows him to New Orleans. There the two form an act, along with Lynne Overman and Eddie Foy, Jr.. and they inaugurate the then startling innovation of appearing on stage in black-face. Dorothy Lamour is the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper. Raymond Walburn. and Bing falls m love with her. But when he returns to break his engagement with Marjorie. he finds her a hopeless cripple and through pity marries her. Bing has never been in better "oice and his portrayal of the minstrel is a fine one. The songs, especially the famous "Dixie," are all tuneful and melodious. Marjorie Reynolds gives a charming, sympathetic portrayal of his wife and Dorothy Lamour is also excellent in a colorful nonsinging role. Billy De Wolfe is outstanding. Your Reviewer Says: Escapist entertainment for all. " Best Foot Forward (M-S-M) It's About: A movie star who causes pandemonium in a boys' military school. COR verve, vim and Harry James this ' little hurricane set to music should mechanize young and old alike because you'll find it extremely difficult to keep your feet still when "Best Foot Forward" swings into action. The kids are good, the music is solid and Lucille Ball in Technicolor is something to put words into the mouth of the Great Stone Face. The story deals with a brash young upper-classman at the Winsocki military academy who in an unguarded moment invites movie star Lucille Ball to his senior prom, thus cutting out his true love Virginia Weidler. The star's bumptious press agent, amusingly done by William Gaxton, sees a chance to knock off some publicity for his client. Then the scheme begins to backfire while kids, star and faculty get thoroughly mixed up to the tune of Harry James's jam and jiving. Virginia Weidler surprises with her good Technicolor looks and smooth singing, Lucille Ball manages her share of laughs frequently without the help of a not-toogood script. Tommy Dix puts over "Buckle Down, Winsocki" agreeably and newcomer Nancy Walker rings the bell resoundingly with her dead pan comedy. Your Reviewer Says: A cheery little dearie.