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...hundreds of stars were there, in jewels and furs and brand-new hats. And, as Announcer von Zell steered them to the microphone, they spoke their ten-second piece-Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Edward Arnold, Walt Disney, Eddie Bracken, Gene Tierney, Frances Dee, Joel McCrea, Ruth Hussey...
...cast is mediocre. Joel McCrea is fine as Buffalo Bill, but Maureen O'Hara, as his wife, turns in her usual wooden performance. Thomas Mitchell, veteran of many fine character portrayals, is poorly cast as Ned Buntline, the newspaperman who made Cody a household word in the East. He is unable to do his usual convincing job. Linda Darnell makes a better looking Indian than the one on the pre-Jefferson nickel, but unfortunately is not seen much in the picture...
Buffalo Bill (20th Century-Fox) is Joel McCrea in fringed buckskins. He looks as embarrassed as if, invited to a masquerade, he had turned up and found everyone else in formal dress. In real life Buffalo Bill was a tough, bewildered, showy neurasthenic whose 70-odd years spectacularly illustrated both the magnificence and the decline of the West...
...Buffalo Bill," starring Maureen O'Hara, Joel McCrea, and Linda Darnell is the feature this week. It traces the life of "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a frontiersman, trapper, and Indian scout, and depicts his final rise to fame as the Buffalo Bill of the wild west show. There will be shows today at 1800 for the Naval Training Schools and at 2030 for the staff; also tomorrow and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The movies are not continuous...
...More the Merrier (Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Joel McCrea; TIME...