Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Help Singing (Universal) cost $2,500,000 to produce, has a Jerome Kern score, throstle-throated Deanna Durbin, and the evident fine intention of turning out a cinemusical as full of sunlit Americana as Oklahoma!. As such it deserves a pleasant fate, and may earn it at the box office. But it can hardly fare well with critics, even the most generous...
...tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for her first appearance as a Technicoloratura, still sings charmingly and still suggests what she has only once had half-a-chance (in Christmas Holiday) to prove: that she is a big girl now, and could step out of her candy box to become one of the most high-powered sex-actresses...
Almost ancient now is the proposal to keep a juke box in Cowie. A spot survey showed a 100 percent willingness to "chip in" in order to keep Cowie filled with the strains of swing that greeted us on that one day. Wish someone could start the ball rolling. . . hint...
Same day, Motion Picture Herald, having completed its annual poll of exhibitors, revealed that the No. i box-office star of the year was Bing Crosby, phenomenally popular in Going...
...buffet supper they are upset because our fellows didn't have such a good day at the front. But these same speechmakers can't find time to come over, or they never find the time to drop a line each week or send a food box to cheer up some...