Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musicomedy right down the Hollywood groove, Pot o' Gold teams up America's favorite doughboy, James Stewart with prancing Paulette Goddard, Comic Charles Winninger, adds Horace Heidt's muscular orchestra for a bracer, bind them together with the radio program Pot o' Gold ($1,000 to the lucky person who answers the telephone when Bandmaster Heidt calls from the studio...
...this whole is less than its parts. Jimmy Stewart tries to keep busy by playing the harmonica Flashing Paulette Goddard, who has seldom looked prettier, sings and dances in old-style nightclub fashion. White-haired Charles Winninger booms through his routine with astounding energy for a 56-year-old. As the last of six tuneful but undistinguished tunes fades away, many a moviegoer might be excused for murmuring: "Jimmy hasn't got it." The Lady From Cheyenne (Universal) is Producer Frank Lloyd's conception of how women got the vote in Wyoming in 1869. According to this version...
...after his private plane plunked into a California field, long-lipped, string-bean Jimmy Stewart, best cinemactor of 1940, barged through a suitably large mob of female admirers into a Los Angeles trolley car, departed with other draftees for a year in the Army. Jimmy figured to make rather less money this year - $21 a month instead...
...James Stewart plays his usual role of a nice, intelligent, slightly bewildered, but withal noble-charactered country lad at large in the big city, with a reasonable persuasiveness. But he has had this same part for so long that it is getting to be a little on the tiring side. Hedy Lamarr lets the cameraman accentuate the contrast between the whiteness of her skin and darkness of her eyes and hair, and tries to hide the fact that her figure is not what the simmer in her eyes would lead us to believe. But she does no acting, says nothing...
...hated; Kane's general manager (Everett Sloan), the sad, loyal, philosophical Jew who stuck by to the end; his former drama editor and best friend (Joseph Gotten) with whom Kane broke after Kane's disastrous try for the Governorship of New York; Kane's butler (Paul Stewart). None knew the meaning of "rosebud." But each in his way understood a little of the man: he was not cruel, but he did cruel things; he was not generous, but he did generous things; he was willful, capricious, and he wanted to be loved-on his own terms...