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...June Haver is a pretty blonde who, at 26, has succeeded in Hollywood. In her ten years on the lot, she has danced and smiled her way up from a $75-a-week job to a $3,500-a-week contract with 20th Century-Fox (for such pictures as Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Oh, You Beautiful Doll). In spite of cinema's glamour treatment, she is also an unassuming and likable woman-as one agent put it, "one of the few actresses in town an agent would say nice things about...
...Family Theater (Wed. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). In a play called Rhapsody in Bop, Jimmy Durante and June Haver drive across country in a vintage Fierce-Arrow to seek fame & fortune in Holly wood...
...songs (e.g., I've Got the World on a String, It's Been a Long, Long Time, Taking a Chance on Love), enlist June Haver and Gloria De Haven, who perform proficiently as a sister team, and radio's Tenor-Comic Dennis Day, whose shrewd timing as an arrested adolescent makes him the movie's most valuable player. In the role of Day's publishing partner, William Lundigan labors unrewardingly with most of the plot chores...
...Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (Warner) is a thin Irish stew of vaudeville acts, served up in turn-of-the-century Manhattan with a father-doesn't-approve love story. June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance...
...gives them the pleasant frenzy of a circus calliope. But this one seems to take all the wrong paths. Even the Technicolor scenes are draped with heavy shadows that obscure the more interesting characters. The best that can be said of the show is that Gale Robbins and June Haver, both pleasant to look at, do some nice singing and dancing, whenever they get the chance...