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...sets for burlesque intermission comedy. Now, after stealing uniforms from the Army and Navy, they are poaching on the domain of Dorothy Lamour. A foursome composed of this comedy team and a colorless love team are shipwrecked on a Lamour island, where the whole squad wastes an hour of celluloid trapping the usual hard-boiled spy ring. Costello canters around in a ridiculous costume, dodging palm trees, spears, and a herd of dusky sarongsterettes who think it's Sadie Hawkin's day. He ends up out of breath, prying adoring arms off his bulging neck, and, as always, a Quixotic...
...Even the celluloid film is wrong. The silky panchromatic light which properly drenches a grade-A romance softens the strongest images of courage or death into a comfortable fiction...
...routines. She can so tilt her chin that, in any posture, she suggests that she is looking up from a pillow. Clark Gable has had better parts before. But in his closing speech on Bataan, he develops real heat and resonance that suggest a rather moving transition from the celluloid fictions which, for years, he has made likable, into facts which, for the duration, will be his obscure, more serious business...
...Husbands Necessary? (Paramount) may serve to record on celluloid a pattern of U.S. social behavior once considered cute: the late, unlamented antics of the country-club set. But as an attempt at scatterbrained domestic frivolity, it falls flat on its farce...
Yankee Doodle tries hard to squeeze 50 years of Cohan Americana into two hours and six minutes of celluloid. It succeeds best with the early years-the tough, tender, Irish clannishness of The Four Cohans (Father Walter Huston, Mother Rosemary DeCamp, Daughter Jeanne Cagney,† Son Jimmy) and their variety act; Songwriter Cohan's accidental partnership with Sam H. Harris (Richard Whorf), his ambiguous first meeting with his future wife (Joan Leslie), who came backstage while young Cohan was playing his mother's father in Buffalo, N.Y. "I'm 18," she confided...