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...Pride of St. Louis (20th Century-Fox) is an amiable, minor-league movie biography of major-league baseball's Jerome Herman Dean (Dan Dailey). In familiar screen style, the picture chronicles the ups & downs of "Dizzy's" career: his rise from Arkansas hillbilly with a knack for pitching and mispronunciation to pitching ace with the St. Louis Cardinals; the arm injury that forced him out of baseball in 1941; his comeback as a successful sport "commertater...
...picture poses a rather odd and artificial triangle: Dizzy loves both his wife (Joanne Dru) and baseball. More authentic but with no higher cinematic batting average is the movie's climax: Dizzy triumphing over objections by teachers' organizations to his barefoot-boy grammar on the airwaves. Dan Dailey makes a likable Huck Finn in spikes, complete with such Dean-Arkansas accents as "slud into third base" and "the batter takes a stanch at the plate." In their own way, Joanne Dru's curves are as impressive as Dizzy...
...Bogley and Chuck DeVoe, both seniors, took the first two singles encounters from Captain Charlie Ufford and John Rauh. Sophomores Pablo Eisenberg, Earle Schulze, Ed Dailey, and Mike Weatherly completed the rout...
...Dailey) and an expert "inside man" (Sam Jaffe) into a manufacturing partnership in the $10.95 dress line, cons her sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...
...Avenue, the movie is no truer to life than it is to Weidman. But the picture shrewdly cashes in on the superficials of the garment-center scene, slightly altered for Hollywood slickness and stitched out with some sharp dialogue. This background, plus Michael Gordon's spirited direction, Actor Dailey's breeziness and Actress Hayward's fire, brighten the old scenario about the ruthless career woman who is redeemed by the love of a good...