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Where's Charley? (Warner) adds tunes, Technicolor and limber-legged Ray Bolger to that durable old 1892 romp, Charley's Aunt, to make a merry cinemusical. As Oxford Undergraduate Charley,* Bolger sings & dances in his ingratiatingly gawky style. And to get himself and his pal out of a romantic dilemma, he also impersonates Dona Lucia d'Alvadorez, his rich aunt from Brazil, "where all the nuts come from." Decked out in a long black dress and a red wig, "with a face like a hatchet, a voice like a duck and a figure to match," Bolger makes...
Where's Charley? dresses up its pratfall plot with actual Oxford settings, such pleasant songs as My Darling, My Darling, and a flashy Brazilian dance number in which Bolger imagines he is a dashing Spanish don. Besides Dancer Bolger, the picture borrows three other leading players from the 1948 Broadway musicomedy Where's Charley?, on which it is based: Allyn McLerie as Charley's comically deadpan girl friend; Horace Cooper as her fiercely mustachioed, fortune-hunting Uncle Spettigue, who woos Charley's aunt in a series of galloping Mack Sennett chases; and Robert Shackleton as Charley...
...five hose companies from nearby towns and lots laid blankets of water over the area, managed to shield nearby film vaults and buildings. The firemen had plenty of help. Actors Burt Lancaster, Ray Bolger, Steve Cochran, Gordon Mac-Rae, and studio Vice President Jack Warner dashed about like real-life heroes, saving whatever they could from the burning shed. In three hours it was all over. The fire (cause undetermined) had destroyed $1,500,000 in buildings and equipment over an area of eight acres. It was the biggest studio blaze in Hollywood's history...
JUSTIN C. BOLGER...
...Believe It (Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger; Decca). A specialty duet about love, sweet love, with Merman doing the trumpeting, Dancer Bolger joining in with somewhat less assurance...