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True To Life (Paramount) is not true enough to be tearful, not false enough to be flat. It is a pleasant, rather cynical comedy in which Franchot Tone, Dick Powell and Mary Martin arrange an Anschluss between the never-never-land of radio and the hardly-ever-land of a "genuine" grey-collar family, Borough of Queens...
Meanwhile, Link jots it all down as research, while Teammate Fletcher Marvin (Franchot Tone) wraps it up for the air, and the U.S. is swept by the greatest family-program in history. Bonnie is swept too: one way by Marvin, a chronic wolf-another by Link, who is much too worried about what will happen when the family hears the program to notice Bonnie's new dress. In the long run come discovery, anger and pain, a slash of real pathos from Pop Moore, mollification through the drunken delights of notoriety, and an ultimate regaining of everybody...
...Dick Powell, Franchot Tone and the other players lather it on, True To Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...
...Born. To Franchot Tone, 38, smooth, high-domed cinemactor, ex-husband of Joan Crawford; and Jean Wallace (Walasek) Tone, 19: a son; in Hollywood. Weight...
...British tankman, Franchot Tone becomes a spy by accident. Lost in the desert during the British retreat of June 1942, sunstruck, temporarily deranged, he stumbles into a roadside inn which is shortly to become German Staff Headquarters. He quickly assumes the clothes and the role of a dead waiter who had been a Nazi agent. Brought before Rommel, he learns that he will be sent to Cairo for another undercover assignment. With a pretty French chambermaid called Mouche (Anne Baxter), he manages to decipher enough in Rommel's papers to locate five mysterious "graves" of buried German Army supplies...