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Honolulu (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Further foot noises by Eleanor Powell, this time executed in a hula hula skirt and applauded by Robert Young...
Idiot's Delight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Producer Hunt Stromberg's version of the play in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne delighted New York City theatre audiences three years ago. On the stage, Idiot's Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether...
...youngest addition to the long roster of Hollywood "geniuses" is Director Garson Kanin, whose specialty is making silk purses out of sows' ears. A onetime Broadway actor and assistant to Broadway Producer George Abbott, Director Kanin started his cinema career as an odd-job man for Sam Goldwyn in 1937, when he was 24. Last year RKO somewhat skeptically allowed him to direct a B-picture called A Man to Remember, which was equipped with a no-star cast and budgeted for a mere $119,000. Kanin turned it into an excellent picture, followed it up with a good...
Marriage Revealed. Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), 22, Norwegian-born ballet dancer (I Married An Angel, Goldwyn Follies) ; and George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 35, crack Russian choreographer, balletmaster of the American Ballet; Christmas Eve, on Staten Island...
...Chicago, James Roosevelt again denied that his new vice-presidency of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. had anything to do with the Government suit. In Hollywood, President Harry M. Warner of Warner Bros., who as a patriotic gesture are already producing a series of Technicolor historical shorts, gave orders that hereafter the national anthem must be played at least once daily in each of Warner Bros.' 450 U. S. theatres...