Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a motion picture features the unbridled individuality of Jimmy Durante, the uncontested childhood charm of Margaret O'Brien, and artistry on the piano by Jose Iturbi, it becomes quite easy to overlook accompanying faults. "Music for Millions" may be somewhat wearing in its trite two-hour tug at wartime heart strings, but it is well stocked with talent that comes to the rescue during emotionally topheavy moments...
...Takeda, a San Jose. Calif, farmer, awakened with a start one night last week-the front of his house had been soused with gasoline, set afire. After he beat out the flames, someone fired a shot...
...familiar Chopin waltzes, preludes, and nocturnes, together with some of the less well-worn pieces--nearly two dozen works in all--are woven into the story of a man torn between love for a woman and love for country; and all are brilliantly played by Jose Iturhi...
Music for Millions (M.G.M.) has two sterling assets: Margaret O'Brien and Jimmy Durante. June Allyson, as a pregnant bull-fiddler in a symphony orchestra conducted by Jose Iturbi, also performs with touching intensity. But the plethora of money lavished on this production, contrasted with the paucity of imagination and taste, makes an excessively lopsided picture. Typical stupenditure: the Misses Allyson and O'Brien walking mile after mile up the nave of a gigantic studio church, at thousands of dollars per step...
Night after night, Jap planes came down from Luzon to pock the airfields around San Jose; night after night U.S. ack-ack and Black Widow night fighters took a heavy toll. Day after day U.S. bombers roared over enemy-occupied bases on Luzon, destroying 144 planes in three days. It was an aerial war of attrition, before the next push could begin...