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...capitalize on celebrities who know little about acting, the cinema long ago adopted the technique of casting them in roles related to but not identical with their activities in real life. This scheme has worked well with such heterogeneous oddities as the Dionnes, Sonja Henie, Lily Pons and Max Baer. The Arkansas Traveler can be regarded as another example of the same school. Robin Burns is a 42-year-old Arkansan who grew up in Van Buren, Ark., became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement of Robin Burns...
Keith Memorial is holding over Sonja Henie and Richard Greene in 20-the Century Fox's "My Lucky Star." One gargantuan skating sequence, the Alice in Wonderland ballet, dominates the picture, in spite of young Englishman Greene's pretty face. In addition is a dubious offering, "Personal Secretary", with William Gargan and Andy Devine...
...Lucky Star (Twentieth Century-Fox) provides happy, healthy Sonja Henie, whose previous cinema roles have differed only in the hairline shadings of her skating routines, with a new medium of self-expression: clothes. Functioning as an employe of a Manhattan department store, she is sent to Plymouth University on a semiprofessional basis as a mannequin to promote the sales of winter sportswear. This device supplies most of the story motivation in My Lucky Star, since the Henie wardrobe arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which...
...program of 58 features will find the Dionne girls hygienically spotted in a musical to be called Five of a Kind. Other notable projects: Drums Along the Mohawk, the Ritz Brothers as The Three Musketeers, three Shirley Temple, four Jane Withers films, specially designed pictures for Eddie Cantor and Sonja Henie...
Having discovered the sparking skates of Sonja Henje, Twentieth-Century Fox has lately been putting the old-fashioned musical on ice-- something which, in more than one sense, is a splendid idea. Unfortunately for "Happy Landing," Miss Henie's latest vehicle, the story calls for too much of the old musical formula: broken hearts, romantic orchestra leaders, and wisecracking business managers. Unfortunately for Miss Henie, she has again been paired with Don Ameche, who should be pulling his darling little black mustache and muttering "foiled again"; and this time Ethel Merman and her fire-alarm voice have been thrown...