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Practically Yours (Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray; TIME, April...
Practically Yours (Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert; TIME, April...
Practically Yours (Paramount) is the story of a heroic flyer (Fred MacMurray) who outlives his suicide-dive at a Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave, to keep the public fooled for the public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers...
...head (Cecil Kellaway) of the firm where Miss Colbert works and Mr. MacMurray used to, is 100% eager to exploit the romantic bonanza. While the hero is still believed to be dead, it is he who urges the heartbroken young woman to go on the air with a piece of made-up stiff-upper-lipping for bereft American womanhood ("You don't have to," he insists comfortingly); and it is he who urges her to repeat it, next day ("You don't have to," he again tells his employe) for the newsreels. When the hero returns alive, horribly...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker gave some histrionic advice to Cinemactor Fred MacMurray, who will play the lead in Captain Eddie, a Hollywood version of Rickenbacker's life: "When you come to the love scenes, don't be too flamboyant, but be plenty persistent-because I was surely that...