Word: lundigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most personal-appearance tours are sponsored by the studios, who pay the stars their regular salaries, plus expenses, to plug their latest pictures. In New York, to tout Pinky and Everybody Does It, Jeanne Grain, William Lundigan, Ethel Waters and Paul Douglas were whisked onto the stages of 23 neighborhood theaters in three evenings. Al Jolson, who only two years ago turned down $40,000 for a week's engagement in Manhattan, has been appearing without pay for months as a living trailer for Jolson Sings Again. (His incentive: 40% of the film's profits...
...William Lundigan as the ardent Northern doctor looks heroic, but his script and stage directions unfortunately give him little opportunity to displayed acting ability. Ethel Waters, portraying Pinky's grandmother, surmounts the Aunt Media-type casting to achieve some fine moments...
...home town, she is first terrified, then furious, at the treatment she gets as a Negro. It is not long until she comes close to being robbed by a fellow Negro, and raped by white men. Torn between running back North to her white doctor fiance (William Lundigan) and devoting her life to educating Negro nurses in the South, Pinky finds a solution that is no pat answer to any of the broad problems the picture raises...
...other feature, does little to relieve the letdown of the first film. It's the success story of a house full of would-be Gene Tunneys and Billy Conns, who are spurred on by the charm of comely Jean Rogers, an unconvincing gold digger and torch singer. William Lundigan and Dan Dailey, Jr., work their way up together through the YMCA leagues into big time and finally battle it out, in the championship bout, for Rogers. Lundigan is KO'd, but gets the gal, who has in the meantime changed her ways. Even ring fans will find little good boxing...