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...Glory. Spain was still a feudal monarchy, its last shred of ancient grandeur dispelled by Yankee ironclads at Santiago and Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...
...Alfonso XIII, still awaited a summons to Madrid. He was in touch with the Caudillo's brother Nicolás, Spain's ambassador to Portugal. But the Caudillo had blown hot & cold on Don Juan. Falangists gibed at his British naval training, called him "the little British sailor in the service of Communism...
...gayer younglove yarn than Sailor rarely turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The Clock's tenderness and sentimental charm (plus moments of mere cuteness), considerably more pace and broad humor...
...hang-fire Walker-Allyson honeymoon is what keeps the picture going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
With personable implausibility, winsome Cinemactress Allyson now protests: "I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be a doctor." But after such pictures as Music for Millions, Two Girls and a Sailor, Her Highness and the Bellboy, and now Sailor, she seems reasonably content with her fate, her high place in fan-magazine popularity polls, her standing as a kind of female counterpart of Van Johnson, and her salary (about $750 a week). Her next picture: Two Sisters from Boston, as a sister to Singer Kathryn Grayson. Her modest ambition: to act like Margaret Sullavan...