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...Kathryn Grayson) on the make for her ex-husband (Van Johnson). The dialogue and plot maneuvers are determinedly labeled for comedy and remarkably scant of laughs. Since Opera Singer Grayson develops voice trouble and Physician Johnson is a nose & throat specialist with an uppity fiancee (Paula Raymond), any bobby-soxer should be able to triangulate the solution...
Ruth (Joan Caulfield) is married now to her wartime beau (William Holden), but her meddlesome bobby-soxer sister (Mona Freeman) is still meddling. This time Mona puts Holden up for state senator without his knowledge. The rival candidate: her father (Edward Arnold), With Holden taking an interest in the campaign and family feelings already strained, the script drags a redhead across his trail to alienate his wife. Then it goes on alienating the moviegoer...
...conditioned reflex, experienced moviegoers may accept Tyrone Power as a dashing example of Renaissance Man. But Wanda Hendrix, ludicrously miscast as an Italian noblewoman, looks like a bobby-soxer lost in an art museum. As her guardian-husband, Aylmer is still playing Polonius with all the sententiousness and none of the wit. Welles, in his own freehand style, out-borgias Borgia. Even as capable an actor as Everett Sloane plays a scoundrel to excess...
...Bullard '46, and actresses Lansing Lamont '52, and Kerry R. Lyne '52, are the principals in the theatrical company, while Hugh Shepley '51, Peter D. Dibble '50, and Frederick H. Gwynne '51 take the side of Puritanism. Lovely Roger L. Butler '61, plays Holly, a stage struck bobby-soxer...
...Philadelphia Phillies wrangled with an insurance company over whether First Baseman Eddie Waitkus ought to get injury compensation for the bullet wound he got from a demented bobby-soxer last June. The ball club argued that Eddie was only doing "his proper duty in public relations" when he went to the girl's hotel room in the belief that she was from his home town and needed help...