Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Above Suspicion (Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray; TIME...
...throats more shamelessly than they would dare to do in the most Borgian drama about man's inhumanity to man. In The Sky's the Limit a modest Flying Tiger (Fred Astaire) on hurried leave, a torpid picture-magazine publisher (Robert Benchley) and a photogenic photographer (Joan Leslie) work out their triangular difficulties with such decent respect for each other that they might be mistaken, in cloudy weather, for very nice human beings. The Sky's the Limit should have been a shattering innovation. Instead, it will do nicely enough until Fred Astaire makes another picture...
...should have had more dances to do. In The Sky's the Limit he has only three, none of which suggests the fact, nimbly demonstrated in shows like Top Hat, that Astaire's dancing at its best can be a pure, heart-lifting delight. His latest partner, Joan Leslie, imparts the double impression in their dance numbers that she is hanging onto his thumb and that she is doing remarkably well in view of the fact that she is not Fred Astaire. At less strenuous moments Cinemactress Leslie is so nice to look at that her feet...
Above Suspicion (Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray; TIME...