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Martha Hopkins, in the title role, is an extraordinarily beautiful girl, and one could forgive her anything. One has to forgive some wooden acting, too, before she gets down to work in the finale and does some excellent singing. Betty Prescott as Celia, Margaret Spalding as Leila, and Nancy Hill as Fleta are reasonable...
Phyllis & Celia...
Aren't you confusing talented Phyllis Thaxter, the Mrs. Lawson in 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (TIME, Dec. 4), with my talented grandmother Celia Thaxter...
...TIME'S apologies to Grandson Thaxter for confusing his grandmother, Poet Celia, with Actress Phyllis, a distant relative. In her day Celia Thaxter was famed for her poems for children (notably The Sandpiper), her sketches of the grey New Hampshire coast and her summer garden "salon" on the Isles of Shoals, where her father, an exlighthouse-keeper, kept a popular hotel...
...picture is perhaps farthest from conviction in its rather overwritten love scenes, though these are played with unusual heart and simplicity by Van Johnson (as Lieut. Ted Lawson) and a talented, sensitive newcomer, Celia Thaxter (as Mrs. Lawson). It is best in its flying scenes-above all in an ambitious sequence which purports to take a low-flying bomber all the way from the deck of the Hornet to the roofs of Tokyo...