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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...
...Life Begins at 8:30" is a melange of the vituperative and the maudlin, presumably designed to fit its stars, Monty Wooley and Ida Lupino. A little more of the vituperative would have helped, since too much of the original stage plot of Emlyn "The Corn Is Green" Williams still shows through, despite "The Beard's efforts to give his role a vitriolic dignity. When the play was debuted, New York critics dubbed it "The Corn Is Ripe." That still holds...
...destruction by a Nazi bomb. Among its starry occupants are Charles Laughton (a tipsy butler), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (a plumber), Claude Rains (a rich villain), Roland Young (a boarder), Merle Oberon (a desk clerk), Anna Neagle (a grownup foundling). Good scene: Brian Aherne (a coal heaver) making love to Ida Lupino (a scullery maid...