Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beach, Fla. Two years ago husky Miss De Fee said: "Isn't it funny how big women like me are always getting tangled up with little bitty...
Happy Landing (Twentieth Century-Fox), is blonde, Figure Skater Sonja Henie's third motion picture, makes it clear that Producer Darryl Zanuck must soon find some other way of keeping Miss Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate...
...stage Mr. Warning presents several pretty girls with various talents as singers, dancers, and even a drum major. The last, a Miss Betty Atkinson, recently twirled the baton for the University of Southern California. While her dancing tnd twirling are not extraordinary, her face and figure are a far cry and a welcome relief from "Harvard coods...
...picture is not of the best, but it does sustain interest, and Charles Butterworth and Charles Winniger should get top honors for the many laughs they provide in this drama of New York at the turn of the century. Both dialogue and action are definitely clean, perhaps suspiciously so. Miss West's fans will find, however, that she wears the gowns of the era to perfection, although they may not like the change from blonde to brunette...
Hollywoods swing to swing is again evidenced here, for Louis Armstrong is hitting high C and higher in a better government crusade backed by Peaches O'Day (Miss West), with Edmund Lowe as the mayoral candidate George Rector appears in films for the first time as host in his own famous restaurant...