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...made things too hot for a dastard Spanish colonial governor. To pacify the Hays office, the Z-mark is carved only once on real flesh- on a man's chest instead of his forehead. (The Fairbanks version precipitated a nationwide rage for Z-cutting among small fry.) Basil Rathbone furnishes the dueling opposition for Power, Linda Darnell the fond glances...
...take-off on--(1) George Gershwin, (2) Cole Porter, (3) Palestrina) who has lost his touch; ergo, he hires two very substantial looking ghosts, baby-face Bing Crosby and anything-but-baby-face Mary Martin. The Crosby-Martin arrangement gets hot, finally takes the tune away from tycoon Basil Rathbone. Moral:--Youth Will Be Served. P.S. A gargoyle named Levant appeared periodically. Four women swooned. Two children were carried out in hysterics...
...Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton, Basil Rathbone and Greer Garson, would star in the production of a picture called The Rafters Ring, 75% of whose proceeds would be donated to British war relief...
...brings back the heterogeneous talents of Funnyman Oscar Levant to the big-time cinema after an eleven-year pause. Fresh from successful sallies into literature (A Smattering of Ignorance) and radio (In formation, Please), Levant revives his movie career as the surly, acidulous secretary of a charlatan song writer (Basil Rathbone). This gives him a chance to rattle off some facile trills on conveniently placed pianos, berate the musical ignorance of the surrounding characters, growl an occasional wry witticism through his cavernous, smoke-filled mouth...
...with Rhythm on the Range) is like the best Bing Crosby musicals which preceded it. With the quiet simplicity of a nursery rhyme it unrolls the fable of a lazy composer (Crosby) who collaborates with a pretty, ambitious lyricist (Mary Martin) in knocking out the popular tunes which make Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin plot Director Victor Schertzinger has managed to string...