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Lady Be Good (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the name of a U.S. musicomedy which Prime Minister Winston Churchill recalls with considerable pleasure. It is also the title of the hit song of the show-a 1924 Broadway show that had everything: music (some of his best) by George Gershwin; lyrics by his brother Ira; book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson; and the dancing Astaires (Fred and Adele...
Whistling in the Dark (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is not the funniest picture out of Hollywood. But it has enough effective low comedy to ease M.G.M.'s brand-new cinecomic down the ways without swamping him. This newest addition to Hollywood's fast-growing flotilla of former burlesque comedians is a bristly, uninhibited, redheaded young man named Red Skelton, who looks and acts not unlike Comedian Bob Hope...
...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer) is such a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic that it might well serve as a final mausoleum for the bones of the ill-fated Harley Street medico and his test-tube twin...
Ringside Maisie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a slight opus about a prize fighter (Robert Sterling) who wants to get into a business that smells good (groceries) and a manager (George Murphy) who makes him fight until he goes blind. It would not be much of a picture without Maisie (Ann Sothern), the Brooklyn Bonfire with a heart as big as a whale. Maisie makes...
Closest Ann came to the screen at Metro was lending her voice to the sound track of a dog comedy. She posed for innumerable publicity stills (says she: "damnedest leg art you ever saw"), inadvertently landed a part in the chorus of the Broadway musical Smiles, played innumerable simpering glamor-girl parts for Columbia and RKO, in 1937 was out of work. Nice handling of a part as a dumb stenographer in Trade Winds, after a year's separation from the cinema, brought her to the attention of Producer Ruben...