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...choice. He chose to emphasize the blues songs "about broken lives and broken dreams"-the Negroes' "trouble music." That meant New Orleans' famed Basin Street and its U.S. equivalent of jungle music. The picture begins in Basin Street in 1907 with the removal to Chicago of Adolphe Menjou, his piano-playing daughter (Bonita Granville) and her blues-singing mammy (Jessie Grayson...
...Hart. The story is no more than enough to hold the picture together, but every scene, from Roxie, the press, and the law doing the black bottom in the city jail to the broadcasting of the trial over a nation-wide network, is a masterpiece in itself. With Adolf Menjou turning in some of his best acting since "Golden Boy," and Ginger Rogers playing her part as though she had never been anyone else, "Roxie Hart" is as healthy and heart-warming a bit of self-ridicule as has been seen in a long time...
Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overman; TIME, March...
Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overmann; TIME, March...
...small, trim-mustached man who looks like a blend of Adolphe Menjou and Anthony Eden, Claudio Arrau at 38 is an old hand in the concert field. As a lad of 20 he made a short U.S. tour in 1924, but failed to go over, and left with a poor opinion of U.S. musical taste. Europe promptly claimed him. Until the war, Pianist Arrau was content to divide his lucrative concert time between Europe and South America, playing 125 concerts a year...