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George Washington Slept Here (Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Percy Killbride; Time...
...Warner) is an amusing picturization of the barn-theater hit about a back-to-the-land antique addict and his strictly modern-convenience wife, who bought a decrepit house in which George Washington was said to have slept. But the leading roles have been switched. In the film Ann Sheridan is a Duncan Phyfey wifey. Jack Benny is her harassed, urban-minded husband...
Meanwhile a rich uncle (Charles Coburn) has turned out to be a gold brick instead of a gold mine. A pestiferous dog saves the situation-at least for home-loving Wife Sheridan-by exhuming a letter from Washington to the Continental Army (modern value: $50,000). As a deadpan caretaker, Percy Kilbride gets the lion's share of the laughs. While the locusts ravish Mr. Benny, Kilbride drawls: "And three months ahead of schedule...
...tremendous task of holding up this massive plot falls on the delicate shoulders of boyish Ronald Reagan, pretty Robert Cummings, and beautiful Ann Sheridan. Reagan and Sheridan move effectively through scene after scene of intense emotion, suicide, incest, with amazing restraint. Reagan especially confounds the experts with a sincere portrayal of the cruelly maimed young playboy. Only Bob Cummings, who is entirely too nice a fellow to meddle about in the vagaries of Victorian morality, looks out of place, and his inadequate emotional capacities wreak havoc in the climactic closing shots...
...Sheridan, best Northern cavalryman, was 34 at the end of the war. Nathan B. Forrest, whom General Sherman called "that devil Forrest," and doubtless the best Southern cavalryman...