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...direct ratio to their remoteness from civilization, soldiers prefer Betty Grable to all other women. They also strongly favor Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Lena Home, Alice Faye, Ginny Sinims, Betty Hutton. Favorite dramatic actresses are Ingrid Bergman, Greer Garson, Bette Davis...
Married. 2nd Lieut. Angela Bertolo Bertelli, 23, last season's Notre Dame All-America forward-passing quarter back, Heisman Trophy winner (1943); and Gilda Lena Passerini, 22, his longtime girl friend; in West Springfield, Mass...
Brown spends a good deal more of his money (again as "Somebody") turning a theatrical warehouse into a super-canteen where the Deyo girls, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Gracie Allen and Jimmy Durante entertain soldiers, sailors and cinemaddicts. In the end, Jean falls in love with a Texas onion-rancher in sergeant's uniform, and the way is clear for the girl with the million-dollar conscience to embrace the million-dollar blue-jacket...
Broadway Rhythm (M.G.M.) is a Technicolored, tune-stirred summer salad into which M.G.M.'s chefs seem to have whipped practically everyone and every thing on the lot except Leo the Growl and Louis B. Mayer. Most conspicuous ingredients are Ginny Simms, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria De Haven, Lena Home, Hazel Scott, Rochester, Tommy Dorsey. The show lasts just a quarter short of two hours, so there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms...
...view halloo began when M.G.M. announced plans to picturize Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eliza would be Negro Torch Singer Lena Horne; Southern Gentleman St. Clare, venerable Lewis Stone; Little Eva, Margaret O'Brien. Simon Legree was not cast, but the producer was to be Arthur Hornblow. Promptly, Negro spokesmen and liberal Whites spiked the plan of Hollywood's most conservative studio...