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Johnny Come Lately (United Artists). When Actor James and Producer William Cagney quit Warner Bros., a year ago last March, and sank $750,000 in a new, independent production, plenty of Hollywood's bigwigs wished them all the bad luck in the world. In trade jargon, the Cagney brothers were dealing "a blow to the industry." If they succeeded, there were plenty of other stars, directors, writers and producers itching to try their own hands at independent production. And not even their worst wishers doubted that the Cagneys would succeed...
...Polo Grounds last week, a three-ring baseball circus sponsored by the New York Journal-American climaxed a three-month War Bond drive and pitched a whopping $800,000,000 into the U.S. Treasury. From Broadway and Hollywood came Irving Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Galloway, Carole Landis to entertain the bond-buying fans; later a crack Army team played a combination of Dodger-Giant-Yankee favorites (chosen by a summer-long tabulation of individual "performance points" and popularity votes cast by fans, as part-of the war's most elaborate bond-raising scheme...
Dorothy Mackaill, ably supported by Jeanne Cagney and others of the theatre's stock troupe, is still doing well with her "Personal Appearance," a burlesque and funny job of acting on all fronts...
...Jeanne Cagney steals the show with here stage struck farm girl role. A natural for La Cagney, the part is hilarious and life like, with here comedy touch really showing itself for the first time...
...Garson (as Mrs. M.), 6) best supporting actress, Teresa Wright. Green-eyed, feather-haired Greer Garson clutched her gold-painted plastic Oscar and silently wept. "This is the most wonderful thing. . . . I feel just like Alice in Wonderland." Other Oscars: to Cinema's man of the year, James Cagney (in Yankee Doodle Dandy); to the best supporting actor, Lieut. Van Heflin (in Johnny Eager). Said a message from Franklin D. Roosevelt: "In total war, motion pictures, like all other human endeavor, have an important part to play in the struggle for freedom and survival of democracy...