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During World War II, the U.S. Armed Forces radio piped overseas such native noises as Lana Turner's sigh, an umpire shouting "Play Ball!" at Ebbets Field, the whimper of a puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights...
...Life of Her Own (MGM) brings Lana Turner back to the movies after a two-year absence - and may make her wish she had stayed away longer. The film is an old-fashioned tearjerker about the eternal triangle and a woman's sacrifice, played to the interminable accompaniment of caterwauling cellos...
...life Lana takes for her own begins in Kansas, soon moves to Manhattan where she becomes U.S. model No. 1. But there is a gap in her life, and Ray Milland, a married mining engineer, comes along to fill it. After they have lived for three months in sin (but with utter devotion, of course), Milland tells her that his wife is an invalid and is on her way to New York. Lana hits the bottle, can't sleep, demands a showdown with Milland's loving wife (Margaret Phillips) and finds she cannot go through with it. Bravely...
Such a leading role might be the despair of a skilled actress; for Lana Turner, it is a disaster. Looking less svelte than chunky, she fails even to make the heroine attractive. Milland is a portrait of acute discomfort, and such able players as Tom Ewell and Louis Calhern squeak by in lesser assignments. Wasted in her first movie role, Broadway's Actress Phillips (The Cocktail Party) plays in a wheelchair, but walks away with every scene in which she appears...
...passenger or crewman had survived to give evidence. Most of them burned beyond recognition, 55 men, women & children, including Egyptian Screen Star Camellia (Lilliane Cohen), "the Lana Turner of the East," and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's able Dean Everett Moore Baker, had died...