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...fiscal impasse, Moon has used up seven woefully unimaginative tunes, the pneumatic assets of the Misses Grable, Landis, Cobina Wright Jr., the semitropical color and languor of Miami, the devilishly clever, coy stock-in-trade that passes for acting with Mr. Ameche, and $1,000,000 worth of Darryl Zanuck's money...
This interpretation was obviously out of reach of the modulated 1941 counterpart of Valentino-downy, dark-eyed Tyrone Power. In Producer Darryl Zanuck's expensive, Technicolored remake of Blood and Sand, nice Mr. Power acts as if he were just acting. He is. Tyrone Power, as many a U.S. female knows, is cute. Neither Juan Gallardo nor Rudolph Valentino nor any other Latin male was ever cute...
...Great American Broadcast (20th Century-Fox) is Darryl Zanuck's conception of how radio broadcasting was born. According to his version, it was sired by Jack Oakie in a thunderstorm on the roof of an abandoned sausage factory on the Jersey flats, with an assist from a barnstorming aviator (John Payne) and a nightclub singer (Alice Faye...
This unhistorical observation serves well enough for a peg on which to hang another musical from the Zanuck cradle of history. Its pattern is familiar; the three principals rehearsed it almost to the letter in Tin Pan Alley (TIME, Dec. 9). But this time it curdles...
...They are a jolting reminder of the scorching Fourth of July in 1919 when the crop-haired Manassa Mauler, then 24, carved a world's heavyweight championship out of mountainous Jess Willard in just three bitter rounds. They are the best refashioning of history ever contrived by Producer Zanuck...