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...what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous Hope vehicles: Miss Lamour is content to be infrequent and supporting; and there is no Bing Crosby (lovable though he may be) to take up precious feet...
...what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous Hope vehicles: Miss Lamour is content to be infrequent and supporting; and there is no Bing Crosby (lovable though he may be) to take up precious feet...
...year's most popular program was Fibber McGee & Molly followed in order by Jack Benny, the Chase & Sanborn program (Charlie McCarthy), Bob Hope, The Aldrich Family, Lux Radio Theatre, Maxwell House, Kraft Music Hall (Bing Crosby), Walter Winchell, Kate Smith. Only newcomers to the first ten were Kraft Music Hall and Walter Winchell...
...second murder, Lamour, Goddard, and Lake chant the woes of "A Sweater, A Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however, on the patriotic finale, and Harold Arlen's song "Old Glory." is a rehash from his own and better "God's Country...
Acting honors are pretty evenly divided between Hope and Crosby. Bob has the more sympathetic role--he gets kicked around by just about everybody--but Bing provides the perfect contrast, besides singing as well as ever. Definitely the weak sister of the featured trio, Dorothy Lamour looks adequate if nothing more. Fortunately she isn't asked to engage in the battle of quips that rages around her. A couple of wise-cracking camels are the only real competition for Paramount's daffy duo. They don't mind when Bob actually succeeds in making a monkey out of himself. But when...