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...voices of the announcers are seldom natural, casual, human. Here is a solemn pulpit voice, preaching of clogged sinuses; here is a maniac with a congenital megaphone; here is baby talk, about as cute as a dwarf in diapers...
...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...
Hollywood has a cute trick for booming a rising young star in his first picture. The credits for the film begin by listing all the established stars, and then add at the end the by-now hallowed phrase, "and introducing Abuer Yokum." It was used when Deanna Durbin, Veronica Lake, and John Garfield were "introduced" to cinema audiences. If there's any good luck charm attached to tacking a new star's name on at the end, instead of at the beginning of his starting venture, it has proved its validity in Paramount's "introduction" of Alan Ladd in "This...
...special afternoon program the Crimson Network will present Miss Dorothy McGuire, youthful star of "Claudia", today at 4:30 o'clock in an interview with Dick Kleeman and Hal Fleming. Miss McGuire who is said to have created the stage character of Claudia is reportedly the same cute, naive girl in real life that she is behind the footlights...
...appeared in 40 years ago, Moore has managed to do it. Billy Gaxton has a better skit, which is still not good enough. Hildegarde, the darling of the supper clubs, sings songs that badly need highballs and dim lights, and for a fully grown girl acts entirely too cute. Only headliners who deserve to be headlined are the Hartmans, whose take-offs on ball room dancing are familiar to many, but still funny to most...