Word: crain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margle--At the Keith Memorial. If you want to reminisce about the heydays of the Twenties, this is the way to do it. Starring Jeanne Crain, it tells the story of the Stutz Bearcat and the raccoon coat--on the nostalgic level it wins, but as entertainment it is just too close to the senior high school play to keep you in the theatre for long...
Margie. Jeanne Crain, as a pretty high-school romantic, involved in some pleasant 1928 nostalgia (TIME...
...nineteenth century Americana has bitten Twentieth Century Fox, but the result is no "Oklahoma!'.' nor even a "Meet Me In St. Louis." For despite its many virtues, including Jerome Kern's last songs and Jeanne Crain, "Centennial Summer" is anchored to mediocrity by its script and by lack of imagination in its whole production...
Connoisseurs of good tunes, however, and members of the Jeanne Crain cult, will find ample compensation for the vagaries of the story as well as for the uninteresting technicolor, the bad dialogue, and Corned Wilde's French accent. "All Through The Day" and "In Love In Vain" Eave been popular for weeks now, and better yet is "Cinderella Sue," a number which Avon Lang makes worth the venerated price of admission. As for Miss Crain, she is as unaffected and pleasant as she is easy on the eyes, despite the uninspired company of such experienced Fox low standard bearers...
Centennial Summer--at the Metropolitan--Yet another musical, this one with Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, and Linda Darnell, and all of it very dull despite Jerome Kern's music...