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...soldiers in Britain learned to like a leggy, blond comic-strip character named Jane. Each day in the London Daily Mirror, Artist W. Norman Pett found some way of making Jane lose all, or almost all her clothes (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). He was pretty inventive about it: Jane would catch her skirt in a bicycle sprocket, in revolving machinery, in a plane fall (see cut) or a pratfall...
...Jane would be a natural for American audiences. So did Hearst's King Features, and last week it took steps to syndicate Jane's comic strip tease to the U.S., starting in October. Step No. 1: assigning an artist to paint panties back on Jane whenever Artist Pett goes...
...Aunt Eugenia (Billie Burke). When his pursuit of Ann costs him his job, he boils the pot with a comic strip inspired by those members of her family whom he has met through his father-the henpecked uncle (Grant Mitchell), the socially ambitious, bullying Mrs. Nesta Pett (Cora Wither spoon), the incorrigible, Eton-suited little nephew (Tommy Bupp). As the Richswitch family of the strip, they become the instantly recognized and hilariously appreciated source of an international guffaw. Only by reconstructing the characters in the strip does Piccadilly Jim restore the abused Petts to sanity, establish himself with Ann, preserve...
Screenwriters Charles Brackett and Edwin Knopf permit their gusto in these complications to slow up the story, but occasional lapses from pace and over-energetic mugging on the part of the Pett family are not serious faults. Best of the scenes is the one in which Jim scrapes acquaintance with the heroine by apologizing for the fumbling attempts of an amiably drunken friend (Robert Benchley) to do likewise...
...RIDGE (Pett) Nine to Six-Thirty...