Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1949)

✓ (F) My Friend Irma (Paramount) BASED on the popular radio program of the same title, this flighty farce depicts the antics of a dumb blonde (Marie Wilson), her permanently unemployed boy friend (John Lund), and her long-suffering roommate (Diana Lynn). Diana is pleasingly pert as a secretary trying to sell herself on marrying her millionaire boss, Don DeFore. The picture introduces night club favorites Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who start off their screen career with a bang. Martin certainly has a way with a song and his side-kick Lewis gives a Grade A imitation of a Girade C moron. After much huffing and puffing by all concerned, everything turns out just fine. Anyway, Irma’s many friends will think 30. four Reviewer Says: A custard pie for Cupid. ✓ (F) Red Light (Roy Del Ruth-UA) [IflTH Virginia Mayo’s help, George Raft II learns that revenge isn’t always sweet n this briskly paced murder meller. The one person who means anything to Baft, his young chaplain-brother, is shot iown by a hired thug. Spurning police issistance, Raft sets himself the task of capping the killer. A hotel Bible is the >nly clue, for his brother’s dying words were that he would find the answer there, rhe audience knows the murderer’s iden;ity, knows, too, that he will meet his ;ome-uppance in the end. Raft is stolid and relentless, and even Virginia can’t distract him from his avowed lurpose. Raymond Burr, Gene Lockhart, Barton MacLane and Henry Morgan compete a capable cast. ’our Reviewer Says: It gets the green light. ✓✓ (F) Love Happy (Pickford-UA) rHOSE Marx Brothers are up to their old tricks again. There’s cigar-smoking Broucho, bushy-haired Harpo, and the )iano-playing Chico. They are out to steal aughs any way they can, neither sparing hemselves nor the supporting cast to 'ive you a good time. It’s the impish, ogling Harpo who hugs he spotlight. A light-fingered fellow, he nnocently lifts a can of sardines for his itarving actor-friends. It turns out that he can contains the missing millionlollar Romanoff diamonds. What happens ifter that must be seen to be appreciated. Df course, the boys surround themselves with a bevy of pretty girls. Ilona Massey leads the list as a foreign adventuress, ralented Vera-Ellen executes a spirited lance and attractive Marion Hutton puts :ip into her songs. Altogether, a laugh lappy shindig. 'our Reviewer Says: Mad and merry. 'V (F) Savage Splendor (RKO) rHE strange sights and sounds of the African veldt are captured in color in his remarkable picture. Armed with rope and camera, Armand Denis and Lewis Cotlow journeyed some 2,000 miles by truck. They recorded weird ribal dances and customs including the oronation of a Congo king. The most exiting sequences, however, revolve around lie jungle’s wild beasts. Their party’s invasion of the underwater hideout of the lippopotamus resulted in unusual pic What fun is a party— for the girl other guests ignore? If only she didn’t risk offending. If someone could whisper: "Never trust your charm to anything hut dependable Mum.” Mum gives safe, long lasting protection against underarm odor. Its unique modern formula contains no water to dry out or decrease its efficiency. Be a safety-first girl. Get Mum cream deodorant today! fAum-SdmUi Ckcuwo .. . Mum checks perspiration odor all u " day or evening. Protects against risk of future underarm odor after your bath washes away past perspiration. WWUlW mfis ofeblb .... Smooth, creamy Mum contains no « “ harsh or irritating ingredients. Doesn’t dry out in the jar to form scratchy crystals. Gentle Mum is harmless to skin. Mum -3 obi {m (Mau . . . . No damaging ingre * U v dients to rot or discolor fabrics. Quick, pleasant to use. Economical — no shrinkage, no waste. For sanitary napkins — Mum is gentle, safe, sure . . . dependable for this important use, too. MUM "tob t»*s» s Guaranteed by < Good Housekeeping A D VfRtlSIb Product of Bristol-Myers riClIo itWJJb