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Woman of the Year(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was made to order for bold Katharine Hepburn. She saw to it that it was: she helped edit the script (authored by two comparatively unknown Hollywood-sprites: Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) sold it to Metro for an unprecedented $100.000, demanded and got her own leading man (Spencer Tracy) and (from a rival studio) her favorite director (George Stevens...
...After the cinema one must take the Metro-or walk. Naturally, the Metro was crammed . . . everyone knew, somehow, that there was a German officer among us. After the second stop I saw-and I think everyone else realized-that someone had pinned a gigantic paper V to the officer's back. At the next stop everyone in the car got out. None of us wanted to be shot...
Master Rooney, Metro's No. 1 asset, now 21 and draftable, is given enough rope to hang himself. He does three so-called impersonations. His Harry Lauder and George M. Cohan are scarcely distinguishable; his conception of Carmen Miranda is painful. Apparently there is nothing he cannot do, except behave himself...
Babes on Broadway (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Even in Hollywood, the custom among the males is to grow up first, and then get married. Against-the-grain Mickey Rooney, 21, got married last week to 19-year-old Hollywood Newcomer Ava Gardner. That adulthood is something he has yet to attain as an actor, Babes on Broadway makes uncomfortably plain. Miss Gardner, fresh from easygoing North Carolina, may have a maturing, decelerating effect on her breathless mate; in that case the future may be worth hanging around...
Kathleen (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer) brings back to the screen Shirley Temple, now almost 13, an inch and a half taller, ten pounds heavier since her retirement almost two years ago. The dimpled little actress, who has made about $2,000,000 for herself in her nine screen years, has become an appealing young lady of quiet charm and impressive assurance...