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...back memories of Andy's teen-age girl friends. While Rooney looks on with the sappy smile that age cannot erase, Director Howard Koch runs flashbacks, taken from earlier Andy Hardy movies, of Andy's puckered-up romances with Betsy (Judy Garland), Sheila (Esther Williams) and Cynthia (Lana Turner). Old friends crowd around, and the younger generation looks at this legendary man with proper awe. Old Buddy Beezy comes to the corporate rescue by offering a choice hunk of land near the old swimming hole for the airplane factory...
...waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with the Schnozz's deathless evaluation of Lana Turner: "Take away her sweater and whatta...
Another Time, Another Place (Lanturn Productions; Paramount) should provide an answer to one of Hollywood's most pressing questions: How will the recent scandal about Lana Turner's private life affect her public appeal? At a preview of this picture, when Actress Turner's name flashed on the screen, cheers rocked the galleries. The picture itself might more suitably be greeted with groans, but it is just the sort of soap opera that can be useful in laundering a reputation...
...screen, as she was in person, Lana is romantically involved without benefit of clergy, but on the screen, or so the dialogue would seem to suggest, her only guilt is her innocence-the cad (Sean Connery) never told her he was married. He is a great big sophisticated British newscaster, she is a poor little wide-eyed American newspaper correspondent. They meet in London during World War II, and she never doubts that bedding will lead to wedding until he tells her the awful truth. "I don't want to hurt you," he explains...
...Johnny was dead. Lana was still alive; a judge would decide soon whether she would lose custody of her only child. Julia Jean Turner had come a long way in the make-believe wonderland of Hollywood-where moviemen are confident that the Sweater Girl is now bigger box office than ever...