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...national conference announced the establishment of a National Foundation for Cerebral Palsy, to act as a clearinghouse of information and to coordinate local organizations throughout the country. Said Leonard Goldenson, a vice president of Paramount Pictures, Inc. and president of the new foundation: "We are in the same position today that the infantile paralysis people were 15 years ago. The big problem, and a costly one, is in training . . . the public...
...Accused (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is the story of a pretty Ph.D. (Loretta Young) who commits a murder in self-defense, and then almost falls in love with the detective (Wendell Corey) who is trying to pin the crime on her. The fact that Loretta is a professor of psychology, and thus knows about guilt complexes, does not make her terrified attempts at concealment any easier...
...James Hagan play opened on Broadway in 1933. Paramount filmed the story the same year with Gary Cooper. In 1941 the first Warner Bros, version, called The Strawberry Blonde, starred James Cagney, Rita Hayworth and Olivia de Havilland...
...vital, so heartwarming that it must be seen by every man, woman, and child in America. Such a movie usually wins the Academy Award. In the meantime, however, the film companies must keep on putting out other less inspired pictures to stay in the black. Under these circumstances Paramount produced "The Paleface," a drama of the Old West which concerns the famous Calamity Jane and a mousy dentist. All who go to see this film with an open (preferably blank) mind will probably think it somewhere between riotous and hilarious. It may not be art, but it certainly is terrific...
...Paleface (Paramount) is a Technicolor reminder that Bob Hope spent years in vaudeville and on Broadway before he faded to a mere voice on the air. In this burlesque horse opera he adds gestures, double takes, struts and muggery to his redoubtable radio timing. The result is a picture that gives the fans more good Hope than they've had since his film life was first cluttered with crooners, sarongs, the Road-this-a-way and the Road-that...