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Among Top Flicker Offerings ‘September Affair’ Booked at Circle; ‘Prehistoric Women’ on Lyric Bill
By R. K. SHULL TAKE IN all the new films entering town coming week and you'll have witnessed some of the best|
and worst examples of movie making.
Out of the filmakers’ top drawer comes “Born Yester-| The reporief is such a good tutor day” (Loew's, Thursday) and “September Affair” (Circle, |,
Thursday). Women” (Lyric, Wednesday). And from somewhere be-
tween these two extremes is
“Tomahawk” (Indiana, Wednesday). Now in its third week and still going strong is “All About Eve” at the Esquire Theater. “Eve” is the experts’ guess to sweep the Academy Awards in Hollywood this year, and if it continues at its present rate, it may still be playing at the Esquire on Mar.
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AFTER JUDY HOLLIDAY had spent several seasons making her own personality synonyous
with that of Billie Dawn in the
stage version of “Born Yesterday,” she had to fight with all her might to land the part in the movie version. Seems that movie moguls wanted to try everybody in Hollywood for the part in preference to Judy, but during the years Judy had portrayed Billie Dawn on Broadway she had warped the part to
her own personality so that it
could never be pried loose. Result is that Judy and Billie are still one,
If you aren't acquainted with the story, “Born Yesterday" concerns an uncouth junk dealer (played by Broderick Crawford) who has pushed himself up the financial ladder through a series of shady deals. He goes to Washington, D. C,,
Vacationing in Italy, concert pianist Joan Fontaine and Jo: seph Cotten, an engineer, meet and fall in love in ''September Affair.” Cotten has run away from his wife, whom he no longer loves. Joan and Cotten miss their plane for America. The plane crashes and they are ‘listed among the casualties at sea. The two decide to stay in Italy and start life over, forgetting their pasts
and breaking all ties,
From out of the back room comes “Prehistoric |schemes.
Among the first-run attractions coming to the downtown the-
Broderick Crawford in "Born Yes-
Wednesday), and one of the six
| young cheesecake specialists who will star in "Prehistoric Women" |
|
wagon with an old medicine peddlér and Yvonne de Carlo, beautf=
|get sex into these epics, don’t! they?). |
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to kill the giant.
|subdue the Amazons. The girls|quels of the Robin Hood story, | {really fall for him and his boy Walt Disney has dipped back into] A ; {friends when the boys team up the movie annals and will come! terday” (Loew's, Thursday), Jack Oakie, Van Heflin and Susan |
jup soon with a brand new ar-
In the windup, the boys and rangement of the original story.
some of the girls pair off in mar-| riage and start a new tribe. Sure/to Sherwood Forest in England) wish the movie had explained and do the story in color on loca-| how the male and female tribes! tion.
® {propagated before they started title role as the original working-| Gives Fre
“Istorni” tension caine. a “#fiow| The producers of this little! eas ally, may end up made fr” Baglend last year under, = Flot of tHe year, & similar “Arrangenrent. “Most ful and talented actress (Script|since the story is so laden with people will agree that there are writers really have to strain to|factual inaccuracies it can't be bigger and better Sherwood For-| ests in North America than Dis-| Some critical comments from ney can ever find in England, but
intermingling. i
opus uninten with the laugh
taken seriously.
Richard Todd will take the
man’s friend. i :
Disney’s “Treasure Istand)’ was
He’s going to take troupe over|
during the
to effect one of the biggest coups to break the junk dealer’s power. With" him on his! capital junket is Billie Dawnp.¢ everywhere in the country gorgeous that it has played, the movie has #5 au blonde girl-friend, who is just been claimed a critics and boX|y..' gechy aspects of a burles-/More Robin Hood
of his career.
(Judy Holliday) his
plain stupid.
The junk dealer uses Billie rare occasions in movie making]
Held Over
Anne Baxter and the other five stars of "All, About Eve" will be at the Esquire Theater for another week, bringing the film's engagement to three weeks at the North Side art house.
Preview: ‘September Affair"
A trigger-happy young officer|around named Alex Nicol shoots an In- «
the country include: the main reason for going there
!Dawn as a front in some of his schemes, in addition to her serv-
{too dumb to have the proper |social graces for Washington so- this guy Nicol is the same man|“ , A, features six refugees from films.
ciety. who murdered Van Heflin's (ania burlesque runway.” And from : ® n The junk dealer hires a re- Indian scout) wife in a massacre|Jay Carmody of the Washington More Moira | porter (Wiliiam Holden) to beat earlier, so Heflin sets out to do/Star comes this appraisal: ‘“Pre|a little sense in to Billie's head. him in. historic Women is a film made
that he soon opens Billie's eyes) the junk dealer's nefarious d0Wn, and Yvonne is more than grees inferior to that in the averResult is that Billie passively interested in Heflin age home movie.” when the film grinds to a close.
Dawn and the reporter conspire a
critics influence your opinions. ballet picture, Producer Sam
= Unusual thing about the film Garb Without Grinds | They may be too sophisticated to Goldwyn may have it.
version of “Born Yesterday” is “PREHISTORIC WOMEN” 1s | 2PPreciate real earthy entertain-|
{a marvel of motion picture mak-| Men
ing, since it incorporates most of
; Hans Christian Andersen. Danny, WHILE SOME film studios are Kaye will take the part of An-|
churning out sequels to the se- de
office success. This is one of the
que show without once resorting to the use of a run-way.
(where the critics and the public In case your memory has
{have been able to get together {on their choice of films. = = 8
rsen. lapsed, it was two of the girlies In. the film, two of the more [from this flicker that Sen. Cape- Back fo Roof {than 80 fairy tales written by,
{hart posed with a few days ago {Andersen will be interpreted in’ Tomahawk in Washington, D. C. ballets by Moira Shearer.
NEXT QF the cowboy and In-| A sort of rehash of all the old- | Goldwyn is currently trying to dian epics to show the North time “BC” pictures churned out |determine which two of the stories | American Indian in a kindly light, by Hollywood, “Prehistoric Wom- {the public would like to see prelis “Tomahawk,” in which thelen,” in addition to the six semi- sented in ballet form. If you | blood-happy whites set the peace- nude girls in the stery, is in color. |! thave any choice in the matter, lloving Sioux on the war path. Story lne concerns the six| just jot down the titles of a couple | Seems that shortly after the beautiful Amazons who are the: of Andersen fairy tales on a post-| [Civil War the white man decided sole survivors of their tribe|: card and mail it to Sam Goldwyn, | {that he’d change his policy with (Story doesn’t say how this all-| ‘Samuel Goldwyn Studios; Holly-| {the Indians. Instead of pushing female tribe came about in the| ‘wood, 28, Calif. {the Indians ahead of him as he first place). Anyhow, the six| § George Balanchine, famed balmoved West, the new scheme was girls’ wise old duenna tells them let choreographer, will go to Hol[to give the Indians some ground to go out and trap a few men for lywood from New York to stage {then push on past him. This idea slaves and to perform other small{ and direct the ballets for the film. was all right except that the services. 2.4.8 whites also needed a trail through! Of course, the girls and the old| : Real Thing | {the Indian Territory (shortest dis- hag are continually dodging a | {tance between two points is a/lusty giant who would like to do | IN CASE you're interested, the {straight line and all that stuff). them in. The girls run down a So the whites made the Boze- hunting party of four Cave {man Trail right through the In-| Dwellers and drag the helpless |dian grounds, then set up Fort males back to their lair. (The {Phil Kearney to protect the white|same sort of thing was happeninterests (sort of like the Rus-/ing in Washington during the] sians arming for “peace” follow- late war.) ing World War II). The leader of the men, a sort | After the fort was garrisoned, of early-day Edison, has dis-| ", . {both sides sat back to wait for covered the method of making! night and tomorrow night. the film back to Hollywood, | the first blood to be spilled and fire. He uses this power to de-| Blonde Alice Raye will be fea- where Betty and the cast were ithe war to begin. Into this pre- stroy the jungle beasties and to| tured in the vocals department. dubbed into the landscape.
(Mount Fujiyama seen in “Call {Me Mister,” now at the Indiana,| lis the real thing. No, Betty Gra-| ble and the others didn’t go to|
Japan to pose in front of it, but! a special cameraman had to make the trip. He photographed it from a variety of angles and shipped
Don Ragon will bring his or-
chestra back to the Indiana Roof for a two-night stand, to-
f v Joan's piano tutor, Francois Rosay, warns Joan “that the love arrangement. will: not work. Her prophecy comes true when Cotten begins to yearn for his old job and his on, Joan re. alizes that her love for him_cannot completely replace his work and his family ties, She is willing to let him go. yr Lain
Complicatioris arise when Cotten's wife, Jessica Tandy, comes to Italy seeking information about her “late husband. Through Francois, she meets Joan. Joan realizes that Jessica is still very much in love with her husband. She persuades Cotten to return to. America. He agrees on the condition that if things don't work out he'll return, next time free to marry Joan. Confused, Cotten and Jessica leave Italy,
to the city on a
see her,
‘
. . . one of the worst pictures in|is to melt some of the frozen as-| lice to him as his moll, but she's! dian boy and the wars start. some years.” “It must be a movie sets he's stored up through Brit-| Fortunately, for story reasons,isince they show it on a screen.”|ish distribution of his earlier
SINCE BALLET and “The Red
Heflin's wife is avenged, theiin a clump of bushes by a clump Shoes” have swept the country, war shows some signs of slowingiof players whose acting is 74 de-/the West Coast movie people have|
bi
{been trying to get something that But don’t let these out-of-town Would stack up with the British
He has signed Moira Shearer [(the star of “The Red Shoes”) to| {play a lead role in a biopic of _
| Cabre have kept her in the headlines, has issued a statement
attractively, It will serve one man—for a lifetime.”
Back with his family and his job, Cotten is still undecided. Jessica becomes very solicitous, even offering to give him a divorce. Meanwhile, Joan has returned to her concert work and comes
the audience, eagerly waiting for .a chance to
|
Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner, the sultry actress whose recent oscillations bee tween Frank Sinatra and a Spanish bullifighter named Mario
calling for more of the poor, little helpless type of girls and less strong-minded career girls. “Now I like men,” Ava said. “The ones I know are reasonably successful, and as far as I can determine, they did their own climbing. If the girl is always right, men are going to pass her by when it comes to romance. If she's wrong now and then, she proves she’s human-—and few men want more than that in the object of their affections.”
Here's Ava’'s recipe for women: “Mix sense with sex, garnish
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After the concert, Cotten has decided to return to her, and divorce Jessica. Knowing that this would mean another cycle of emotional upheavals, Joan decides what is best for
them.
guest appearance, Cotten is in