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Fifty Roads to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an unambitious but consistently pleasant little farce, designed to exhibit as fetchingly as possible the qualifications of Producer Darryl Zanuck's latest discovery, Indian-blooded Don Ameche, whose fan mail at Twentieth Century-Fox has lately been second only to Shirley Temple's. Ameche is Peter Nostrand, a good-humored playboy who, while trying to escape from a bench warrant in a divorce suit, encounters Millicent Kendall (Ann Sothern') trying to escape from an undesirable suitor. By the time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into...
...delivers a little essay about all values being relative and she proudly recites a few lines from Trees. How they then fall out over Pinkie Aaronson and later make up is a tender and amusing tale rendered with penetrating realism. In the enthusiastic first audience were Cinema Producers Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox and B. P. Schulberg. auguring that Playwright Kober and Producer-Director Connelly, who has not turned his hand to so promising a theatrical venture since The "Green Pastures, might acquire feathers not only for their caps but for their nests is well...
...brothers into vaudeville. They launched a collegiate act in 1925, soon landed in Earl Carroll's Vanities. But collegiatism went stale and the trio had three lean years before they developed their present brand of satirical lunacy. It finally got them a job in a night club where Darryl Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby Sing. There, especially in a Jekyll & Hyde number, they displayed their peculiar talents to perfection-part eccentric dancing, part owlish mimicry, part brutality, part a musical patter of song, pun and gibberish. One in a Million...
...Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty, as it was Dancer Anna Pavlova's, is a swan dance. On the shrewd assumption that a cinema public which had never before investigated figure skating needed to be educated before witnessing the rarest flower of the art. Producer Darryl Zanuck insisted that she save it for a subsequent picture. What her cinema debut offers instead, in the interstices of a loosely woven story approximating Sonja Henie's own biography, is a series of simple routines climaxed by newsreels of her winning performance at Garmisch in last year...
That the theme of news-pigeons in Rothschild, the semaphore in Lloyd's-recurs in Producer Darryl Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business...