Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

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Ann Blyth plays the Princess who is the most unbelievable character ever planted in a movie and, good little actress that she is, she should sue. Handsome David Farrar is wasted on this movie. Handsome Richard Egan as Gil, ditto. Marvin Miller is the Genghis and a professional clown, “Poodles” Hanneford plays Friar John. Your Reviewer Says: All it did was mix me up. Program Notes: 250 battle axes, 400 cross bows, 1,600 arrows, 200 suits of armor, four battering rams and fourteen gallons of synthetic blood were used in the making of this movie. David Farrar, whose suit of armor weighed eighty pounds, had to be hoisted onto his horse. Walking across a long rug to bow before the Princess, David touched his sword with his chain glove and Whoops! over he t vent backwards. Shocked! Electrified! Sparks flew in every direction. After that he wore a rubberized outfit under his mail . . . Marvin Miller, a radio announcer when he isn’t playing an Oriental, couldn’t wear the red beard history tells the mighty Khan wore because in Technicolor it looked “sissy.” That peculiar sound is Genghis whirling in his grave. (F) Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (Warners) AS corny as its title and twice as old hat! Good old Warners have cast still another musical in the old familiar mold and what will happen? People by the carload will pay good moola to see it. Because it features such favorites as Dennis Morgan, Gene Nelson, Virginia Mayo. The latter with Lucille Norman and Virginia Gibson play a sister singing act in a night spot that features Dennis Morgan, singing off key as usual, and Gene Nelson, a hoofer. Dennis, in love with Lucille, refuses to give up gambling. So the girls decide to heck with love, they’ll marry millionaires. Just like that. Off they go to fulfill an engagement in Las Vegas where Gene, the hoofer, really turns out to be a millionaire. S. Z. Sakall plays the owner of a gambling-motel joint and Tom Conway is Nelson’s stuffy uncle. What or who Wally Ford was supposed to be was never quite clear but whatever it was, it was awful. new slimness and credits it all to long walks I His wife claims it was strictly a no-dessert-and-soft-drink routine. before breakfast. (A) The Strip (M-G-M) WELL, well! Mickey Rooney’s quieted down. A little, anyhow. Of course, every once in a while he lets off steam beating the daylights out of a set of drums, but in between “The Mick” is refreshingly subdued as the ex-G.I. who sets out to i seek a job in Los Angeles, carrying with | him the set of drums given him by his hospital buddies. James Craig, big time racketeer, carelessly runs Mickey off the road, ruining his car, his drums and his ! hopes. In reparation, Craig takes Mickey into his bookmaking ring on the famed Hollywood Strip where everything can happen and does. In a police raid Mickey escapes, meets up with Sally Forrest, dancer in a Strip night club and becomes so enamored, he quits Craig and takes a job as drummer to be near the overly ambitious Sally. Introducing her to Craig, who promises her a screen test (that again!) Mickey suffers heartache and eventually arrest when the whole business ends in m-u-r-d-e-r. Glimpses of familiar places along The Strip — Mocambo, Ciro’s, Little Hungary— plus the guest appearances of Vic Damone and Monica Lewis lend a certain enchantment to the view. Your Reviewer Says: An inexpensive way to go night-clubbing. Program Notes: M-G-M spared no expense \ to get together the best possible Dixieland music, if you care for that sort of thing. Together in one band are trumpeter Louis Armstrong; trombonist Jack Teagarden; clarinetist Barney Bigard; drummer Cozy Cole; pianist Earl Fatha Hines and bass violist Arvell Shaw. Kay Brown, the teen-age TV and recording star, who plays a cigarette girl, gives forth with a catchy song in a small voice. V'V (F) Darling, How Could You! (Paramount) THIS cozy, warm and happy little comedy of family, children and parental confusion was adapted from Barrie’s play, “Alice-Sitby-the-Fire.” Joan Fontaine and John Lund are husband and wife, with John, a physician, and Joan returning from Panama (the canal, you know) to greet their three children, Mona Freeman, fifteen, David Stollery, ten, and baby Mollie. The young son rejects all emotional advances. The baby is annoyed at Joan’s fussing. And daughter Mona regards her mother as an elderly lady who needs understanding. When Mona misinterprets her mother’s relationship with an old friend, Peter Hanson, the fun really gets going with everyone comically mixed up. Your Reviewer Says: Now please! Something more plausible or else — Your Reviewer Says: Chuckly. Program Notes: Lucille Norman, one of radio’s top favorites, danced for the first time since childhood and on the screen, yet. “W hat girl couldn’t dance with LeRoy Prinz for instructor and Gene Nelson as a partner?” Miss Norman asks. Answer — / couldn’t. Las Vegas, all Technicolored up, was the site of most of the action . . . While working in Hollywood, Miss Mayo daily wrote out two menus for her cook. One was her own health food diet and the other a mansized meat-and-potato affair for her husband, Michael O’Shea. Gene Nelson, whose good looks and fine dancing have shot him starward, works out on the horizontal bars each day with his friend, Burt Lancaster, at the studio gym. Dennis Morgan was proud of his Program Notes : Joan Fontaine was anxious for a holiday, having made “September Affair,” “Something to Live For” and this one all in a row. No one dreamed her vacation in Europe would make headlines linking her with Aly Khan. Least of all Joan . . . Mona Freeman , the mother of a three-yearold daughter, had a wonderful time as a teenager. David Stollery has quite a background. Playing Judith Anderson’s young son he tvas stabbed nightly in “Medea.” He also was Arnie in the stage version of “ l Remember Mama.” Peter Hanson teas discovered while working in a Pasadena Laundromat and hasn’t been idle a day since Peter is a graduate of the Pasadena Playhouse.