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Tossed into one of the liveliest medleys of battleships and submarines, songs and choruses, long-limbed Eleanor Powell trips through one of the best musical comedies of the winter, "Born to Dance". As Nora Paige, the New Hampshire country girl, she finally gets a lead in a New York musical show. James Stewart who plays opposite her as the luckless Naval officer is duped by a rival actress in a publicity stunt. Their alternate weals and woes give them ample opportunity to sing such tantalizing Cole Porter hits as "Easy to Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin...
...revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics. In RKO's The Plough and the Stars the theme is the considerably less specialized one of conflict between love and patriotism. Jack Clitheroe (Preston Foster) and his wife Nora (Barbara Stanwyck) are assing in the park when he is summoned to his post as commandant of the Irish Citizens Army. Nora, who has already tried to keep him at home by destroying notification of his commission, sees him out with bitter apprehension. The I. C. A., under General Connolly, captures...
...post office to bring help, Jack takes to the roofs. When he gets through a trap door in his own attic, with British soldiers at his heels and others coming up the stairs, the household is assembled for a wake for little Mollser Gogan, dead of consumption. Quick-witted Nora saves her husband's life by hiding his gun in Mollser's coffin. When the British soldiers break in a moment later, Jack is squatting beside it, playing cards with his cronies...
Brilliantly spotted in 14 supremely efficient and separate styles of dancing is Nora (Eleanor Powell), a girl who lives in the Lonely Hearts Club and learns to love a boy. Authors Jack McGowan & Sid Silvers were not trying to be original even when they made the ship that brings Ted, Mush & Gunny home a submarine instead of the usual dreadnought. Everybody seems satisfied with the plot as they pair off in the Lonely Hearts Club with Hey, Babe, Hey! a novelty song and dance that is the season's high for cinemusical contagion. Frances Langford is a good dancer...
...NORA SANFORD...