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Letter to a Hero (RKO-Pathe) is written by a small-town schoolteacher (played by Ann Dere) to an erstwhile pupil, a soldier who has just been decorated. While the soldier-whose face never appears-reads it, her voice speaks it. While she speaks, the camera wanders gently and perceptively among the people and places to which she refers-the classroom, the main street by day and by night, the church, the school bus, the soldier's home (a farm) and his parents, the war work of various auxiliaries, a Friday night dance at the High School, a parade...
...trouble has plagued her ever since 1937: too many orders. Though Nancy Ann has not taken on a new account since August 1942, her backlog of orders (about 1,500,000 dolls) is enough to use up all her present capacity until...
...with letters about little girls collecting her dolls the way boys fill in a stamp book. She has had word from Harrods of London that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose are among the collectors. The current collection adds up to 125 different models. Since she went into business. Nancy Ann has sold almost 5,000,000 dolls...
...suntan), through face-painting, hair-cementing (British mohair-blond, gold, auburn or brunette) etc., to a score of high-school girls who specialize, after school hours, in putting on panties, and then to the final dresses. But the sewing room is not so easy to manage. Even though Nancy Ann rotates sewing jobs so that every worker has at least four different models a week and never repeats on a given dress more than once every five weeks, the delicate, eye-straining stitching (on electric sewing machines) is still apt to bring on hysterics...
...Nancy Ann Abbott leaves statistics to her business manager and partner, A. L. Rowland. She is usually incredulous when she hears her doll production translated into 180,000 yards of cloth, 3,000 gallons of paint, 1,500,000 yards of baby ribbon a year. But both partners clam up when they are asked about profits. All Partner Rowland will say about the net income on 1943's $1,000,000 gross is: "We ain't complainin...