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Thank Your Lucky Stars (Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Dinah Shore, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, some 39 other stars and starlets of the Warner galactic system; TIME...
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Warner), the most crowded constellation Warner Bros, has ever assembled, surrounds Eddie Cantor with such newcomers to song & dance as Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan and Alexis Smith, who know their way around in this sort of work, help out. Veteran comics S. Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton help still more. But the picture is most amusing as a sort of glorified Amateur Night...
...Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias (pinch-hitting for Humphrey Bogart, who was scared to involve himself in so unrefined an act) yowling and prancing through a frenzied, nightmarish parody of The Dreamer and the whole hierarchy of "dream" songs...
Joan Fontaine (Mrs. Brian Aherne, the former Joan De Havilland) became a U.S. citizen. She gave up the British citizenship which she and Sister Olivia acquired from father Walter De Havilland in their natal Tokyo. (Father, a onetime professor, who divorced their mother and married a Japanese maid, was last heard from in Denver with Wife...
Between times he experimented. George Kenney was the first man to fix machine guns in the wing of a plane: back in 1922 he installed two .30-caliber Brownings in the wing of an old De Havilland. Kenney is the inventor of the parachute bomb, which enables bombing planes to fly lower, bomb more accurately. He invented this bomb in 1928, but it was never used until last September, when he dropped 240 of them on the Japanese at Buna. Twenty-two Jap planes were standing on the strip; 17 of them were destroyed...