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...Tomorrow (Paramount), Alan Ladd's first picture since his discharge from the Army, presents Loretta Young as a deaf New England mill-town patrician and Mr. Ladd as the doctor who works to cure her deafness. Her deafness is figurative as well as literal. In its literal aspect, being merely the result of meningitis and the despair of specialists the world over, it offers no insuperable difficulty. Figuratively, it is a more stubborn case...
...Great Moment (Paramount), a singularly confusing yet likable little comedy-drama about the fumbling and fighting which attended the discovery of anesthesia, is more interesting in its past vicissitudes than in its present form...
Charming is a much overworked little word, but it is nevertheless the most fitting description of "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." It is definitely a charming picture. Paramount has clothed the Emily Kimbrough-Cornelia Skinner biography with a trail little plot, but no one seems to mind very much...
...Hope, ski-nosed favorite of U.S. doughboys, who returned two months ago from a 30,000-mile tour of the South Pacific, was suspended by Paramount for failure to show up for work on a new picture, promptly announced that he had '"suspended" Paramount because "the boys come first. ... If somebody'll suspend the war, I'll be very happy to start another picture. . . . I'll give the country a nice rest How often can people stand to look at my kisser...
Rainbow Island (Paramount) is a Technicolored mythical kingdom somewhere west of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, inhabited by Dorothy Lamour and sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence-a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy act involving Eddie Bracken and a very hungry man-eating flower; 3) some amusingly parodistic Oriental music by Roy Webb and a catchy song, The Boogie, Woogie, Boogie Man; 4) enough general ribbing of sarong and tomtom pictures to make a thin but fairly likable piece of musical ridiculousness...