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Date troubles: Jane Powell and Elizabeth Taylor are rivals in a musical as gay as young love itself
(F) A Date with Judy (M-G-M)
Young love is the all-engrossing topic of a most engaging Technicolor musical in which cute canary Jane Powell plays Judy, Miss Sweet Sixteen.
Once Jane meets good-looking Robert Stack, poor Scotty Beckett plays second fiddle. However, his sister, Elizabeth Taylor — as spoiled and spiteful as she’s rich and beautiful — has her eye on Bob, too. Bob, an outspoken young man, regards Jane as a mere child; as for the lovely Liz, she just needs to have her wings clipped and he is the lad to do it. Elizabeth’s father, Leon Ames, thinks so at any rate, and he’s a big shot around town.
Wallace Beery and Selena Royle are Jane’s long-suffering parents; Jerry Hunter her pesky kid brother. Carmen Miranda sings and rhumbas with her customary Latin fervor; Xavier Cugat amiably waves his baton. In Judy’s own words, it’s all “stinky super” with Scotty Beckett rating a special mention as the lovelorn teenager.
Your Reviewer Soys: Here’s a date worth keeping.
(A) Johnny Belinda (Warners)
1 STIRRING story, admirably acted, makes this one of the most distinctive dramas of the year. The central character is a pathetic deaf-mute, condemned to a lonely life in rugged Nova Scotia until an idealistic young doctor interests himself in her welfare.
Jane Wyman — who demonstrated her dramatic ability in “The Yearling” -will make you weep. As Belinda, Jane never utters a single sound yet her eloquent portrayal clearly conveys what is in her heai't and mind. Her farmer-father, Charles Bickford, and her sharp-tongued aunt, Agnes Moorehead, are too overworked and impoverished to be helpful. Accordingly, when scoundrelly Stephen McNally takes cruel advantage of Belinda’s plight, it is understanding medico Lew Ayres who makes life worthwhile again. Jan Sterling scores as a village maiden who settles for McNally when Ayres proves oblivious to her charms.
Your Reviewer Says: A drama that’s dif
ferent.
Tenderly poignant: The story of a deaf-mute, given dramatic emphasis by Jane Wyman, Charles Bickford and Lew Ayres
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