Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hold That Co-ed (Twentieth Century-Fox) can be regarded either as a football comedy with overtones of political satire or as a satirical fantasy about the career of the late Huey Long with overtones of campus comedy. It lives up to football comedy better than to political satire because even that small portion of the Long career which the film considers is too strange for fiction...
...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...
Safety in Numbers (Twentieth Century-Fox). Further excitement in the lively career of Producer Darryl Zanuck's profitable Jones family, occasioned mostly by Mayor Jones's attempts to outwit a gang of swindlers who have been selling his townsfolk worthless stock...
Keep Smiling (Twentieth Century-Fox). Jane Withers, heretofore cinema's No. 1 brat, functioning as the ray of sunshine that brightens the career of a derelict movie director (Henry Wilcoxon), in a film designed to appeal mostly to moppets...
...Gateway (Twentieth Century-Fox). Grand Hotel melodrama against an Ellis Island background, with Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes and Gilbert Roland...