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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Harriette Lake Pryor (cine-moniker: "Ann Sothern"), 32; and U.S. Army Air Forces Cadet William J. Hart, 26, her one-time leading man (in Ringside Maisie); she for the second time; in Ventura, Calif...
...picture, is gilded with Hollywood touches. Its Russians look like fur-coated Americans, and the Soviet Union is pictured as a land of magnificent food and drink, as it probably was in the circles in which the Davieses moved. As Mrs. Davies, the picture has sweet-faced Ann Harding, and as Hero Joe Davies, tall, forceful Actor Walter Huston...
Lantern-jawed Army Air Forces 2nd Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 23, reported missing on duty "in the South American Area," was nine days later found safe in a Brazilian jungle. In Ann Arbor, where the onetime Michigan halfback had hula-hipped himself to All-America fame, his parents offered special masses, got many a wire from Tommy's worried admirers. Anxiety ended, his anxious mother promptly cabled her son ". . . just so he'd know that we knew he was safe and weren't worried any more...
Edge of Darkness (Warner) is the Hollywood Western formula applied to occupied Norway. It provides two active hours of heroism and villainy with Guerrilla Errol Flynn as the lover of anti-Nazi Ann Sheridan. There are constant short pauses for simplified political ideology. Otherwise the picture keeps ripping on through to a non-ideological climax in which almost everyone is wiped out except Sheridan and Flynn...
Here's a good glamourless war picture for a change. "Air Force" is the biography of a womanly bomber whose crew thrives on calm heroism over the Pacific. Noel Coward may take a bow for the plot which is much like that of "In Which We Serve." Mary Ann is the heroine of the film and deserves the glory for her modest, but moving role. John Garfield and Harry Carey discreetly shun the light of stardom for her benefit, and rightly...