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Gary sang Yo Te Amo to the late Lupe Velez in Wolf Song, early Paramount talkie. He sang Let Us Drink to the Girl of our Dreams in Paramount on Parade...
...used to call him the Crooner on the Paramount lot in those days. When Bing Crosby finally got the dressing room next to Coop, his singing suddenly stopped. We never learned...
...Fleet That Came to Stay (U.S. Navy-Paramount) is a shattering and dreadful record of the work of Japan's suicide flyers. The U.S. fleet which stood off Okinawa not only came to stay, it had to stay. The 6,000 to 7,000 of Japan's youngest men who flew Japan's oldest planes were quite as inextricably committed; they were locked into the mortal vortex of the divine tempest-Kamikaze...
This week, the men who made Power Dive, Wrecking Crew, etc. will begin work on their 28th picture for Paramount, a bodily-harm thriller called Hot Cargo. If their formula holds, it will be shot in the usual time of twelve twelve-hour days, should earn some $378,000 for Paramount, $97,000 for Pine & Thomas. Hollywood's artists will pooh-pooh it. But the customers will...
Incendiary Blonde (Paramount) purports to record the life and raucous times of the late Texas Guinan (most famous of nightclub hostesses), whose battle cry ("Hello, sucker!") might be carved on a monument to the 1920's. Incendiary Blonde is not such a monument. It is a brassy synthesis of color, song and dance, spattered with laughs, sniffles and melodrama, and brought to life chiefly by vigorous, charming Betty Hutton. In its own way, it is a rather likable show...