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...Slim Lauretta Jefferson, great-granddaughter of the late, beloved actor Joe Jefferson (Rip van Winkle), was ready in New York to hit the tanbark as the first ringmistress of Ringling Bros.' new "Continental Circus...
Hollywood did its heaviest backing in years, its heaviest buying in history: 20th Century-Fox paid an estimated $300,000 for The Eve of St. Mark, $265,000 for Something for the Boys; Warner Bros, advanced $250,000 against all profits on This Is the Army, paid $250,000 outright for Dark Eyes, The Doughgirls; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $260,000 for Without Love. Columnist Leonard Lyons quoted Hollywood's Nunnally Johnson: "All the film companies got together and agreed not to pay less than $250,000 for any play." With gas rationed, Broadway expects a terrific summer. Cracked Walter...
Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) is a celluloid glorification of the U.S. merchant marine. To accomplish its business, it signs on First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night...
...picture is a symphony of heaving, buckling studio sets, dubious ship-model photography and explosions on the sound track. Like many current war films, it suggests oldtime flicker serials, is directly in line of descent from The Perils of Pauline. For making it, Warner Bros, is being allowed to fly a special Maritime Service Victory Flag...
Then, last year, Warner Bros., seeking a love theme for Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, fished As Time Goes By out of the files. Instead of giving the tune to a conventional crooner, Warners picked Dooley Wilson. He is something special. He has one of the warmest personalities that ever got into show business. He sings with understatement and a sense of mood worthy of a great lieder singer. Dooley gave As Time Goes By everything he had. When Ingrid Bergman in the film says that no one can sing the song like Sam (Dooley), millions of moviegoers...