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...millions" in the title are members of the armed forces stationed in the United States who hear symphony music performed by a noted orchestra on tour of service camps. June Allyson and and Marsha Hunt head a troupe of girl instrumentalists manning the violins for victory, Durante acts as manager of the outfit and general good humor man, and Miss O'Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi...
...Music for Millions" cannot be recommended without qualifications, it is simply because the plot lacks originality and the sprightliness of several in the cast is held down under sentimentality. Similar productions have been less entertaining; this one is saved by the sincerity of June Allyson and the whimsy of "Umbriago...
Music for Millions (M.G.M.) has two sterling assets: Margaret O'Brien and Jimmy Durante. June Allyson, as a pregnant bull-fiddler in a symphony orchestra conducted by Jose Iturbi, also performs with touching intensity. But the plethora of money lavished on this production, contrasted with the paucity of imagination and taste, makes an excessively lopsided picture. Typical stupenditure: the Misses Allyson and O'Brien walking mile after mile up the nave of a gigantic studio church, at thousands of dollars per step...
...girls are June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven, the sailor Van Johnson. Miss Allyson's notable contribution is a torrid rendition of "Young Man With A Horn"; Miss DeHaven is sensational as her own good-enough-to-eat, red-headed self; while Johnson chases the gals across the screen often enough to hold the interest of even the most hardened wolf...
...Girls and a Sailor (M-G-M). The girls are sister nightclub singers named Patsy and Jean Deyo. Noble Patsy (June Allyson) is as reliable as the polestar; spoiled Jean (Gloria De Haven) is as unreliable as a polecat. The sailor (Van Johnson) gives his name as plain John Brown, so it comes as no surprise to learn that he is really John Dyckman Brown III, a democratic multimillionaire. Before the sisters learn his secret he spends a good deal of his fortune sending orchids (signed "Somebody") to flirtatious Jean, much to Patsy's pain...