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Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overman; TIME, March...
...This county wouldn't hang Lucrezia Borgia," a reporter (Lynne Overman) informs Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers), redheaded, gum-chewing, wisecracking dancer, whose husband has just shot her lover and pinned the murder on her. Convinced that she can't have a career and be innocent, too, Roxie agrees to stand trial and let the newspapers "put her right up there" with Peaches Browning, Queen Marie, Ruth Snyder and Red Grange...
Although Roxie Hart makes a hilarious burlesque of Chicago's Keep-Cool-With-Coolidge, Keep-Cockeyed-With-Capone era, it is often too overdone for superior farce. Mouthpiece Menjou and Newsman Overman make mincemeat of their fat roles; America's own Ginger Rogers is attractive but unbelievable in hers. The star plays second fiddle...
...What America needs today is a good 5? war song. The nation is literally crying for a good, peppy marching song, something with plenty of zip, ginger and fire. Something like Over There, Keep the Home Fires Burning, Pack Up Your Troubles...
Arthur Murray's five: Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Ann Miller and Mrs. Murray, "who is not only a superb dancer but has all the additional qualities that would make a man happy in retirement." Pope Pius XII told 3,000 newly weds to trust each other, emphasized that if the husband was a doctor, a lawyer, state official or military officer with professional secrets "the wife must show she trusts her husband and make no attempt to learn the secret...