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Strictly Dynamite (RKO) is an uncomplimentary portrait of a radio clown (Jimmy Durante); his partner and mistress (Lupe Velez); his gagwriter (Norman Foster); and the gag-writer's agent. In it Jimmy Durante says '"incredulous" when he means "incredible"; "confederate" when he means "inveterate." The narrative is interrupted at intervals by a telephone repairman who calls up someone he dislikes to say "Nuts...
Hollywood Party (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens with Jimmy Durante as "Schnarzan the Great," burlesquing Johnny Weismuller in a scene with Lupe Velez (Mrs. Johnny Weismuller). Says Durante: "Beneath this here lion's cloth beats a heart that's seethin' with sentiment." Says Velez: "I'll bet you say that to every animal." Distressed, Durante uproots a tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions...
...Take a look. See eef you can find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...
With a cast including Jimmy Durante, Marjorie Rambeau, Lupe Velez and Mary Carlisle, one would expect "Palooka" to be a good picture, unfortunately, these experienced players are incapable of dragging it above the drippy level to which one of the most stupid stories on record reduces it. Just why on earth such an array of talent must be so thoroughly wasted certainly passes understanding...
...sheets and shows it; not only that, but it has also been diluted with Hollywood sentimentality. A poor farm boy goes to the big city, and becomes famous as a prize fighter. Whereupon he immediately starts to sow a large crop of wild oats with the expert help of Lupe Velez. But his old mother back on the farm hears about it, and, being well aware of the traps that these fast city girls may set for her boy, comes posthaste to save him from this awful fate. Yanked rather precipitately from the arms of Miss Velez and ignominiously knocked...