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...minor problems of U.S. life: what happens when a man wins $24,000 in prizes on a radio giveaway show. Until his "lucky" night, James Stewart is a happily married junior executive in a small-town department store. His only infidelity to his wife (Barbara Hale) and two un-Hollywooden children (Natalie Wood and Tommy Rettig) has been an occasional daydream about getting away from it all and taking a trip to the North Pole...
Liberty, which will distribute through RKO, plans at least one picture a year from Capra, Wyler and Stevens. The company's published credo includes some sensationally un-Hollywooden notions. If its talented producer-directors can live up to these intentions, moviegoers are in for a glorious...
George M. Cohan, who loved Broadway and despised Hollywood, turned out to have left his heirs more Hollywooden nickels than stage money. Largest single asset of his $827,384 net estate proved to be his interest in the Yankee Doodle Dandy cinema version of his life: $421,766. "Mr. Broadway's" interest in songs: $65,000; in plays...
...picture's chief fault is that the Hollywooden heads, in attempting to produce a "best-seller," have turned a simple, true story into a lurid piece of sensationalism. Instead of the inspiring epic recited by President Roosevelt in his famous 1942 radio address, one sees a movie distinguished by its attempts to turn Dr. Wassell into a Lou Gehrig or a Sergeant York...
...dedicates his life to bringing these two paramours to a dreadful death. To anxious readers it may look for a time as if he would be successful, but Author Clayton steps in manfully in time's nick, turns tables right & left, ends his romantic melodrama with a thumping Hollywooden finale...