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...life story of Singing-Star Jane Froman.-Unfortunately, the picture is less inspiring than its theme. Producer Lamar Trotti's screenplay is larded over with sentimentality, and Jane Froman's toughly courageous story emerges on the screen as the_ sort of life she might have led if Technicolor cameras had been looking...
...Special Award Winner Gene Kelly (who last November complained that academy "snobbism" would bar a musical from the laurels), for his acting-dancing "contribution" to the Technicolor musical, An American in Paris...
...Belle of New York (MGM) lets Fred Astaire dance on just about everything from a horsecar to thin air. In fact, the picture itself is mostly thin air. It is a Technicolor trifle in which Astaire, a turn-of-the-century playboy, falls head over dancing heels in love with Vera-Ellen, a mission worker who also dances. Revivalist Vera-Ellen saves Sinner Astaire, but not all their fast stepping can quite save a plodding picture. This pretty period piece is punctuated with a few chuckles provided by Marjorie Main as a Park Avenue dowager and Keenan Wynn as Astaire...
...American in Paris. Imaginative musical in Technicolor, with songs by George Gershwin, dances by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (TIME...
...Africa possesses. Waterfalls, steaming jungles, and endless papyrus marshes are caught with such remarkable realism that when Bogie and Katic are attacked by a swarm of insects, everybody in the theatre started scratching. The jungle is definitely one of the actors in The African Queen, and thanks to the Technicolor camera and its own loathsome inhabitants, it does a very fine...