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Destry Rides Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak...
...Again is charged with enough buckaroo comedy* and sheer animal spirits to keep cinemaudiences chortling even when there is nothing to laugh at, makes even the widely advertised Dietrich v. Merkel hair-pulling match (the closest the picture comes to being vulgar) seem just a romp. As entertainment, Producer Pasternak's western, with hardly more pretensions than a cow town, is likely to be voted best of the year...
...first "places" was reported to be Paramount, which dropped her in 1937. But to the sudden autumnal flurry of studio offers, Cinemactress Dietrich, grateful to Producer Pasternak for giving her another chance when other producers would only take her out to supper, replied that her option belongs to daddy. Said she: "Joe Pasternak has first call on my services...
Neither Producer Pasternak nor anybody else could foresee what Samuel S. Hinds (who was the father who played with fireworks in You Can't Take It With You) would do to Destry Rides Again. As a top-hatted, bespectacled, tobacco-chawing old mayor of Bottle Neck, and a crooked stand-in of its bad men, he durn near runs away with the show...
Four or five years ago Joe Pasternak electrified the movie-going world with a little girl who had a beautiful voice and a contagious smile. Her name was Deanna Durbin. Today Joe Pasternak has pulled the same trick with pleasant, but not electrifying, results. The name of his find is Gloria Jean and her first picture, "The Underpup." With a none-too realistic rich girls' camp as a back ground, she swings through an enjoyable pastel plot with occasional time-outs to show off a very nice voice. C. Aubrey Smith crashes through again as one of the better parts...