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...tale begins when Shelley Winters, a nightclub singer, goes to the airport to meet Colleen Miller, an innocent young thing from the old home town. On the way, Shelley bumps by accident into a male passerby. "If there is any damage to the chassis, honey." he says, "I'd be glad to pay for repairs." "Buster," Shelley replies, "you couldn't even pay for the headlights." Colleen soon gets used to the way New Yorkers (in this picture) talk, but it shocks her when a fellow offers to pay her $100 for a date...
...Married. Colleen Kay Hutchins, 26, Utah's tall, blonde Miss America of 1952; and Ernest Vandeweghe Jr., 24, Colgate University basketball star turned New York Knickerbocker pro; in Manhattan...
...race for Best Picture High Noon and The Quiet Man are leading contenders, both with seven nominating votes. Now John Wayne is very popular at the box office, and Maureen O'Hara is a fine, full-blown colleen, but The Quiet Man is not "best" even in such a sparse year as 1952. High Noon has certain faults, but it surely is better than any other picture nominated for top honors...
Taxi (20th Century-Fox) is a sentimental 18-hour journey in a New York taxicab. The fanciful story tells of an Irish colleen (Constance Smith) who arrives in New York with her baby to find her husband, a no-good fellow who wooed and won her in Dublin and then disappeared. With the help of a cocky cab driver (Dan Dailey), the pretty immigrant finally tracks down her man. By then, of course, it has long been obvious that her heart belongs to the cabbie...
...some interesting scenery, filmed in and around New York, and some effective minor types, notably a group of smart-aleck cabbies. In a straight acting role, Song & Dance Man Dailey plays the cab driver in robust style, while Constance Smith is a winsomely wide-eyed passenger. Amusing scene: Colleen Smith using a bit of blarney to talk an Irish cop out of giving Cabbie Dailey a traffic ticket...