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With the help of Darryl Zanuck's millions and Louis Bromfield's doubtful dramatic talent another grand American screen epic has been born. "Brigham Young--Frontiersman" deals with the Mormon migration to Utah, with hatred and persecution in the good old days. The story is told with much sympathy and technical skill, but bogs down and struggles forward as painfully as the pioneers themselves...
...Fifty productions were in the works at eleven studios in preparation for the new cinema season which is heralded each autumn as "Motion Pictures' Greatest Year." Publicity men beat out stories explaining that 1940 would see a swing from heavy drama to relaxing comedy and musicals. At Fox, Darryl Zanuck wound up The Great Profile, in which John Barrymore does a savage satire on his scrambled life. Frank Capra was te diously struggling over his latest comedy, Meet John Doe. Comics Jack Benny and Fred Allen were immortalizing their radio feud on celluloid at the Paramount...
Lillian Russell (20th Century-Fox), Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's semi-annual rummaging in the attic of U. S. culture, nostalgically evokes the howling vulgarities of the gilded era. This time the hourglass figure of Singer Lillian Russell serves as a prop on which to drape a long (two hours) and lavish account of her vocal triumphs and marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity...
...Adventuress (20th Century-Fox) is a remake of a French film of the same name and a lively demonstration of what Hollywood experts can sometimes do to make a trite story into a thoroughly entertaining picture. The experts are Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director Gregory Ratoff. The story is about two Continental con men (Erich von Stroheim & Peter Lorre) who work the better resorts and the grander hotels until their lovely confederate, the fake Countess Vronsky (Zorina), falls in love and marries one of their well-to-do victims (Richard Greene). Then they go to work...
...Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer (William Gargan), who can't be separated from his sawed-off polo stick, fans may think they recognize a gentle kidding of 20th Century-Fox's Po-loist-Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who is also headstrong, also inseparable from a sawed-off polo stick with which he likes to frighten recalcitrant colleagues during conferences...