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With A Song In My Heart is like an evening spent around the piano after someone has asked for some of the old songs. Starring Susan Hayward as Jane Froman, the picture boasts twenty-six standard hits sung by Miss Froman herself...
...giving the audience old favorites sung by the still excellent voice of a star whose popularity has faded with time. With A Song In My Heart has great success in following this pattern. The show has only one large-scale production number. For most of the other songs, Miss Hayward is alone on the scene, lending her own brand of vivacious charm to Miss Froman's exciting voice...
...plot furnishes enough action to keep the picture from becoming just a Hayward-Froman recital. It quickly goes over Miss Froman's meteoric rise to fame, the dis-integration of her first marriage to Don Ross, the plane crash that left her a virtual cripple, and concentrates on her comeback, during which she entertained troops in Europe. The story's weakest point is its lack of motivation for Miss Froman's love affair with John Burn, the co-pilot of the plane. Burn, played insipidly by Rory Calhoun, does not appear long enough on the screen to get across much...
...husband, Don Ross, and Rory Calhoun is cast as John Burns, the Lisbon Clipper copilot who rescued her from the Tagus River after the crash and later married her. As a sort of composite of all nurses, Thelma Ritter plays a hardbitten, bighearted girl from Flatbush. Red-haired Susan Hayward, in the leading role, con vincingly matches her on-screen lip move ments to brunette Jane Froman's warm, vivacious singing voice on the sound track...
Remains To Be Seen (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) does a straight hack job in hit-or-miss fashion. In their first mystery farce, the authors of Life With Father and the producers of Arsenic and Old Lace never manage to make murder, or much of anything else, amusing. When the curtain goes up, a highly unpopular vice-snooper is already dead, and in due time a highly unperturbed audience finds out who killed him. But the mystery side of Remains To Be Seen can largely be ignored; indeed, the playwrights themselves set the example...