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Jessel hits his last sequence like a drummer going into a sock chorus. Lotta is in mid-performance in a big New York theater. A letter arrives, seeming to seal the death of her lover in a Southern hospital. Suddenly her father (Hoofer James Barton) rushes in to announce that the war is over. Tearfully, Lotta goes to the center of stage and sings a mournful chorus of Dixie to the outrage of the audience. Her partner (Dennis Day) steps out of the wings, gives the New Yorkers a lecture that echoes Lincoln's "malice toward none," and soon...
...Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars' special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband's stuffy family for custody of her son, Singer Hutton takes refuge in a nightclub and renews an old romance with Hoofer Astaire. Boy loses girl not once but twice, the child is seized or kidnaped three times, and the story is cluttered with what seems to be all the supporting players on the Paramount...
...fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies, lampoons the bellicose American Legionnaire father with merciless skill. Dan Dailey flings himself into the best role of his career with all his hoofer's timing and energy, makes befuddled Willie just as funny, human and enormously likable as he ought...
...Herman Ball, stepped up to become the Redskins' sixth coach in 13 years. Washington fans, who put the 'Skins ahead of the home-town university teams in their football favor, thought the change might cause at least one twinge of regret in George Preston Marshall, the ex-hoofer, ex-Hearst publisher (Washington Times) and millionaire laundryman who once exclaimed at a dinner party: "Congratulate me, folks, I've finally arrived socially-today I got the sheets of Mrs. Borden Harriman." Washington thought George would miss having a vice admiral to order around...
...part of Harry, the hoofer in Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life," was played on Broadway by Gene Kelly. Paul Draper took the role in the movie version. Frank Rettenberg '52, cast as Harry for the Adams House Christmas play production, is having a hard time following in their footsteps...