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Thanks for Everything (Adolphe Menjou, Jack Haley, Jack Oakie; TIME...
Henry Smith is so average that J. B. Harcourt (Adolphe Menjou) and his assistant, Brady (Jack Oakie), promoters of the contest, decide to make him a sort of industrial guinea pig to serve as an inexpensive substitute for the Gallup Polls and FORTUNE Surveys. The system works to everyone's advantage except Henry's until he is called upon to decide when and why the average U. S. citizen would go to war. At this point Thanks for Everything explodes into a climax which combines straight slapstick with vigorous satire on such U. S. preoccupations as the advertising...
...Reinhardt (Wed. 9:30 p. m., CBS). The new Texaco hour, on which No. 1 exiled impresario presents his dramatic workshop on his first U. S.-sponsored program. Star: Cinemactress Bette Davis. Variety show performers: Cinemactress Una Merkel, Cinemactors Adolphe Menjou, Charles Ruggles, Soprano Jane Froman, Tenor Kenny Baker, David Broekman's orchestra...
...formula, Letter of Introduction adds two interesting variants: the show in which Katherine Mannering (Andrea Leeds) makes her gala debut turns out to be a calamitous flop; and the hero of the story is not her erratic young fiance but an aging, bibulous matinee idol to whose portrayal Adolphe Menjou lends the Barrymore mannerisms that have become traditional for such roles since The Royal Family. These, and Director John Stahl's watchful, vivid treatment of situations which would have been threadbare with less careful handling, give the picture exactly that air of conviction in which most such fables...
...incomparable Samuel Goldwyn dug deep into his plush, silken topper and drew out Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Adolph Menjou, The Ritz Brothers, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds, Helen Jepson, and the great Zorina. He mixed them all together, added a dash of technicolor, and even put his name in the title; and out of it all emerged "The Goldwyn Follies." Wandering in and out of Hollywood sets and hamburg stands, leaping from the insane antics of the Ritz brothers to the majestic beauty of "La Traviata," and combining jazz and the ballet in preposterous fashion, it dwarfs everything previously produced...