Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clever, sensible dialogue and some fine acting by Danny Thomas rescue this latest Warner Brothers musical from the now familiar formula of stringing a cavalcade of song hits around the life of a famous composer. The songwriter in this case is Gus Kahn who supplied his catchy lyrics for such tunes of the '20's as "Memories," "It Had To Be You," and "Pretty Baby...
...usual, the critics and the public did not quite see eye to eye on the year's best in films. Fifteen critics for New York City's newspapers voted for Warner's version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Other New York critics' choices...
...Streetcar Named Desire (Warner...
Starlift (Warner) was Hollywood's ill-starred project of ferrying troupes of movie performers to Travis Air Base, north of San Francisco, to entertain replacements bound for Korea and wounded veterans on their way back to U.S. hospitals. That venture now supplies a backdrop for a spotty variety show, loosely glued together by the romance of a Hollywood star (Janice Rule) and an Air Force corporal (Ron Hagerthy) from her home town...
...film trots out Warner's full stable of stars-Doris Day, Ruth Roman, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris, Jane Wyman, Frank Lovejoy et al. But the show's best number is a hilarious skit, "How to Bake a Pousse-Café Cake," performed by the nightclub team of Noonan & Marshall...