LIGHT ON THE MOVIES
Hamilton, James S.
Light on the movies James S. Hamilton Junior Miss—This delightful comedy of youngsters just entering their teens is one answer to the people who worry about what the moviesdo to their...
...Light on the movies James S. Hamilton Junior Miss—This delightful comedy of youngsters just entering their teens is one answer to the people who worry about what the moviesdo to their children...
...Family) Colonel Blimp—Handsome and entertaining coverage of the changes made by the years from the Boer War to the present in an English soldier-sportsman...
...Rose's night club...
...There is an abundance of songs, girls, and specialties, including a 5-piano number played by top-flight pianist band-leaders...
...Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe—Gay and gaudy musical that is a fine ad for Mr...
...This makes a good enough outline...
...The vague plot proceedings have to do with exploiting Eddie's singing with Diana Lynn's girl band...
...Around it has been created a singularly warm and happy picture of family life—a family in a city apartment coping with the lively, emerging personalities of 2 adolescent daughters...
...Family) * * * Out of This World—Eddie Bracken, personally, seems to get along quite nicely without the directorial guidance of Preston Sturges, which is good news...
...Family) A Royal Scandal—Handsome comedy of Catherine of Russia and one of her minor amours, spun out too long...
...A Tree Grows in Brooklyn—A fine and sensitive dramatization of a generous section of the popular novel, with eut-standing acting all around and superb direction...
...You'll rarely see anything more radiant than her exit for her first with-a-boy party...
...Full of humor, good nature, and contemporary color, but overlong...
...No girls ever had a nicer father and mother than Allyn Joslyn and Sylvia Field—bewildered, amusedly patient, and firmly confident that their ebullient offspring are something more than domestic earthquakes...
...Family) * * * A Handy Guide To The Best Current Films A Medal for Benny.—A tragi-comedy by John Steinbeck about the exploitation of war heroes, laid among the paisa-nos of southern California...
...Farn-ily...
...Family...
...J. Carroll Naish is the real star of a touching and significant story, surprisingly well assisted by Dorothy Lamour...
...Peggy Ann Garner is as different as possible from her Fran-eie in the Brooklyn Tree picture, but every bit as good, with a chance to be pretty in her odd little way, and light-hearted...
...with Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn in grand comic vein...
...Her girl-buddy Fuffy (Barbara Whiting) is a bux-om bit of realism to counteract Judy's imagination, and party-age sister Lois (Mona Freeman) with her string of boy escorts, is something to out-Tarkington Tarkington...
...Betty Grable in lavish form, assisted by Dick Haynes, William Gaxton and Be?trice Kay...
...Mature...
...Bracken's songs are sung for him by an old friend of his—and yours," say the screen critics, and there is a whispered "Thanks, Bing" at the end...
...As Judy...
...The movies have never before come so near truth in picturing these fascinating, exasperating, touching years of extreme youth, for while Junior Miss is always amusing, it is pen-atrating-and understanding as well...
...Veronica Lake also figures in it, and on a lower level Cass Daley and Parkyakarkus, who presumably have their appreciators...
...What plot there is is created by Judy's application of her highly ro-nantic movie-made worldliness to her own family life, which involves her father's position in his law firm as the chief difficulty...
...The cast could hardly be better...
...And in this picture, in addition to his usual bumbling charms, he reveals an unsuspected luscious voice...
...Miss Judy Graves, aged 13, and her closest friend and confidante, Miss Fuffy Adams, find parallels for all life's most serious problems in the screen dramas which they seem to devour as zestfully and casuaHy as they do chocolate sodas—and with is little indigestion...
...The Crosby family is represented by more than Papa's voice—his 4 offspring also briefly liven up the picture, which needs all the livening it can get to keep so simple a gag as the Crosby vocalizing from the Bracken throat an engrossing subject for well over an hour and a half...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 28
