Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Help Singing (Universal) cost $2,500,000 to produce, has a Jerome Kern score, throstle-throated Deanna Durbin, and the evident fine intention of turning out a cinemusical as full of sunlit Americana as Oklahoma!. As such it deserves a pleasant fate, and may earn it at the box office. But it can hardly fare well with critics, even the most generous...
...rice were slithering out of its lingerie. But as a grab bag of short turns, encores and gracious gestures by well-liked Warner names (Dennis Morgan, Jack Benny, John Garfield, Bette Davis, Jane Wyman, S. Z. Sakall) and name bands (Jimmy Dorsey, Carmen Cavallaro), Hollywood Canteen is pleasant enough until it becomes plethoric...
...central character (Alfred Drake, late of Oklahoma!), a happy-go-lucky figure condemned in Puritan times to wander the roads from generation to generation, lacks the tang and sinew of a Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan. What should have been an exciting show remains, at best, a pleasant song recital...
...Forty-niners, now bossed by slim, pleasant-mannered Lieut. Colonel George A. Walker, need not look to their aces alone for records. In the Philippine fighting, their toughest yet, they have so far knocked down 139 planes, have lost only four of their pilots. In the entire war, they have shot down 627 Jap planes...
Here Come the Waves (Paramount), a musical salute to the women of the Navy, is a minor but pleasant enough vehicle for reliable Bing Crosby and rambunctious Betty Hutton. Mr. Crosby, in a heroic departure from character, plays a crooner whose life is made miserable by the squeals and faints of the bobbysock babies. Miss Hutton plays the double role of a girl who is old enough to know better but doesn't, and her twin sister who does. As the former she is, as usual, endearingly stentorian; as the latter she is startlingly gentle and demure. Nice tunes...