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...little as if he should be carrying a roast apple in his mouth. Judy Garland is charming as the late Marilyn Miller and still more charming when she sings Who? Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time I Saw Paris. Lena Home sings Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Why Was I Born? with as much careful intensity as if she were expounding existentialism. Frank Sinatra does Ol' Man River nicely but with a reverence that robs the song of its all-important drive. Robert Walker...
...second round with "Old Man River" with Frank Sinatra, the co-ed's Caruso, sliding all over the range in an effort to bring this great folk-tune into the bedroom. Among the brighter spots are Van Johnson's cocky clowning through "I Won't Dance" and Lena Horne's delivery of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" with the force of a tropical storm and the understanding reminiscent of the days when gals perched step pianos...
...Apparently the political insinuation that Mr. Capp has presented in Li'l Abner was missed by Mr. Killinger. . . . True, Lena the Hyena was undoubtedly created to rib Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould; ah, but Lower Slobbovia was also created, I am sure, to rib a certain country. What more appropriate place than in Foreign News could the item have been placed...
...first charge, which carries with it the greater peacetime penalty, was filed by Mrs. Lena Years, of 10 Hope Drive, She identified the trio as the men who had attacked her the previous day, insisting that "Fritzie," her Mexican hairless, was the gridiron mascot...
...assumed that the book board would have the same high critical standards as the Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors which turned thumbs down on Brewster's Millions because Negro Comedian Rochester had an important role, excised scenes from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 which involved Negro Actress Lena Horne, and banned The Outlaw, starring sexy Jane Russell, because of "too much shooting...