Screenland (Nov 1949-Oct 1950)

Robert Mitchum cruising with his two sons, Christopher and James. Mrs. Mitchum was below preparing lunch. Bob's starring in "Christmas Gift." It was a beautiful night jor a party, but the highlight oj the evening came when Katie, who was wearing a stunning white gown of Grecian cut, with a crimson overdrape, disappeared Presently, the star who upset a whole studio by flatly refusing to pose for any bathing suit "art" ever and denouncing ei^ery actress who did, reappeared in a very scanty swim suit and then stole the spotlight with her very fancy high dives right in her own pool! Your Guide To Current Films [Continued from page 16] America and because it's the only solution, Gary gets himself classified as a war bride so he can get to the U.S.A., too. His struggle with questionnaires intended for females, his struggles with subduing his male instincts and. his struggle with impersonating an Army nurse are Grant at his best and shouldn't be missed. . . . White Heat Warner Brothers BRUTAL melodrama starring James Gagney as a homicidal psychopath with a mother fixation. A gang leader and murderer of long standing, Gagney's only decent feelings are for his mother, Margaret Wycherly, who has aided and abetted his crime career. After Gagney and his gang hold up a train and make off with $300,000 in currency, their perfect crime starts falling apart when the Treasury men find a dead man and tie him to the robbery and Gagney's mob. If caught, Gagney faces a murder charge, so he confesses to a small crime committed hundreds of miles away and at the same time the train hold-up was pulled. Wise to his game, the T-Men plant agent Edmond O'Brien in Gagney's cell as a brother convict. The death of his mother causes Gagney to go berserk. He escapes and takes O'Brien with him. O'Brien amasses all the necessary evidence but when Gagney learns that he's a T-Man, you start wondering how nerve-wracking can situations be. Gagney is terrifically chilling, Virginia Mayo, as his mercenary spouse is perfect, and Margaret Wycherly as the mother is great. Jolson Sings Again (Technicolor) Columbia SPARKLING with songs that Al Jolson made famous and sung as only Jolson can sing them, the sequel to "The Jolson Story" picks up where the other left off. Jolson, played by Larry Parks again, goes through a series of ups and downs .starting with his divorce. Not very happy and dissatisfied with his life, Jol.son retires as a singer and goes gallivanting around the world looking for the elusive bluebird. After the death of his mother, during the early part of the War, Jolson signs up with the USO Gamp Shows and while performing for the 74 armed forces overseas, becomes stricken with a tropical fever. Recovering in a hospital, he meets nurse Barbara Hale. In time, they marry and settle down in Galifornia. In the theatre where Jolson makes a benefit appearance is a movie producer who admired him very much from way back — result, "The Jolson Story," and the rocket climb back to the top. Good entertainment and some very funny business when Larry Parks as Jolson teaches Larry Parks as Parks playing JoLson how to act and sing like Jolson. . . . do I make myself clear? The Gal Who Tooic The West (Technicolor) V niver sal-International AN amusing variation on the theme of Western pictures — strictly tonguein-cheek from the opening scene. Two cousins, Scott Brady and John Russell, are the fightingest grandsons ever a Western tycoon had, and Gharles Goburn is no match for them. They, like all the other male O'Haras, starting from greatgreat-great-great grandpaw, fought each other before they could walk. Reaching manhood, their intense dislike for each other increases ten-fold when opera singer, Yvonne DeGarlo, arrives in town. Because only one can win her hand, it seems as though a joint call for a minister and undertaker will issue in the same day. Happily, Yvonne not only has beauty but her brain is well-stacked, too. Battleground MCM DEALS with the 101st Airborne Division, which, as the picture's preface says, was fondly known as "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne." Starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban and Marshall Thompson, this is a fine convincing tribute to the men who gallantly fought back with everything they had even though the Germans had them hopelessly surlonnded and under constant heavy artil lery fire. Yet nowhere in the entire picture can you find the hero. Every man is a plain ordinary G.I. who devotes most of his time to gripes, self-preservation, and his own particular problems. Song Of Surrender Paramount HAS to do with New England bleakness which is suddenly shattered by a phonograph machine. Wanda Hendrix, a sweet young thing, is dominated by her elderly husband, Claude Rains, curator of a small museum devoted to the preservation of New England history. Wanda buys the phonograph at an auction. Then, later, listening to the new invention, she becomes enchanted by the beauty of music. Rains, Uke everyone else in the town, thinks this sort of thing is downright immoral, and forbids Wanda to keep the phonograph. Rather than give it away, she hides it in a cave and whenever Rains is away plays her record. The music attracts wealthy Macdonald Carey who is also attracted by Wanda. From then on, events progress to such an extent that Wanda has to leave town although the romance with Carey is onesided. Very emotional. Slattery's Hurricane 20th Century-Fox IN CASE you didn't know it, there are a group of Navy pilots whose job it is to fly smack-dab into the heart — technically called eye — of a hurricane and plot the course of the big wind so that warnings may be sent out by the U.S. Naval Aerological Service. Excellent documentary films released by the Navy for the first time are devoted to this form of hair-raising reconnaissance. In order to hang these films together, there's also a story running along about a pilot, Richard Widmark, who has a strong yen for Linda Darnell, the wife of his best friend. Veronica Lake plays a dope addict taking the cure and wondering will she ever get Widmark for her very own. PRINTED IN THE U S A EV THE CUNEO PRESS. INC.