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...year, it stands out so far above its present partner in crime as to be practically celestial by comparison. It is the kind of western that Hollywood has been turning out in great quantities of late; they take a couple of good box-office attractions like Clark Gable and Lana Turner and put them in what is really an old-fashioned Class B horse-opera, except that the script is Class a and there are a few big names in the production and direction end. But all this extra expense can't hide the essentially slow and hackneyed character...
...past year and a half, Clarinetist Shaw has gone through his third marriage and divorce (to & from Cinemactress Lana Turner) and returned to music. Impatient, inquisitive, he brooded over the idea of a big band with which he could play concert jazz. The band he led last week represents a compromise. Among its 32 pieces are 15 strings, which play straight for Shaw's featured hot soloists-best-known: Negro Trumpeter "Hot Lips" Paige, Saxophonist Les Robinson, Trumpeter Max Kaminsky, Drummer Dave Tough...
...Fleming's (G.W.T.W.) refusal to play the hoary fable for its horror. They have dressed it up with overtones of Freud in which Tracy's transformation to Hyde is accompanied by symbolic montage shots of a bounding lion (the beast in Hyde); lilies (the purity of luscious Lana Turner, Jekyll's upper-crust fiancee) ; an hourglass (Jekyll's frustration). The result of this phantasmagoria is boredom...
Only grave, good-looking, lyrical Ingrid Bergman wrings credit from the tortured script. Her portrayal of the unfortunate barmaid who charms Jekyll only to fall victim to Hyde's sadism is a refreshing element in a preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...
...Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered...