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F — For the whole family A — For adults
v'v'V^ (F) I’ll See You in My Dreams (Warners)
I DREAM of a movie, warm and tender. A movie that gives abundantly of song and happiness, of simple pleasure and abiding love. A movie that tells the story of songwriter Gus Kahn and his wife, Grace LeBoy. How they met, how they worked, how they endured through good times and bad. Danny Thomas as Kahn infuses his role with a down-to-earth appeal that knocks at every heart. Doris Day as the wife, who literally pushed her husband to fame, is equally fine. And the music! The many beloved songs for which Kahn wrote unforgettable words. Frank Lovejoy, James Gleason, Mary Wickes are fine contributors to an outstanding movie.
Your Reviewer Says: A musical with heart.
Program Notes: Mrs. Kahn approached Danny Thomas on the set with a gift; the small surgical scissors her late husband used to clip his cigars. Mrs. Kahn, as technical adviser, visited the set each day and the Veterans Hospital at Sawtelle each evening where she played and sang for the boys . . . One of Danny’s greatest boosters when he began his career at the 5100 Club in Chicago, was Kahn himself. Both Gus and Grace believed in Danny . . . During production Doris Day and her husband, Marty Melcher, formed a music publishing company of their own . . . The banquet scene for Gus was filmed in the banquet room of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. In this same room the actual testimonial dinner for Kahn was held in 1939.
Wy* (A) Death of a Salesman (Columbia)
THIS IS a closeup of the mental deterioration of a well-intentioned, average sort of man who lives in dreams and becomes weary beyond usefulness. The story, adapted from the Broadway play, is inclined to overstress the mental disturbances of Willie Loman, and this sometimes throws the theme considerably off key. But Fredric March, as Willie, is so outstanding, any flaw becomes a secondary matter. Mildred Dunnock, recruited from the stage play, is perfect as his wife, loyal, loving and enduring. Cameron Mitchell (also from the original play) and newcomer Kevin McCarthy are his sons. Howard Smith is Charley, his one loyal friend and Jesse White, the boy next door.
Your Reviewer Says: Splendid but depressing.
Program Notes: The play, by Arthur Miller, was originally written for Fredric March. But March, making a film in London at the time, turned it down after a cursory reading. Later, aware of his mistake, March leaped at the offer to play the screen version . . . Mildred Dunnock, a former teacher at the exclusive Brearley School for Girls in New York, won the stage role hands down after one reading . . . Kevin McCarthy, who played Biff in the London company, appears on the screen for the first time . . . After two weeks of intensive rehearsals, the actual shooting time consumed only twenty-six days. The crew attended rehearsals, thus knowing exactly where . the lights should go and the best camera angles before shooting.
DORIS DAY and Danny Thomas make a tuneful twosome in musical biography of songwriter Gus Kahn
CAM MITCHELL, Mildred Dunnock, Howard Smith, Fredric March, Kevin McCarthy in moving human drama
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