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Thank Your Lucky Stars (Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, and some 14 other Warners' stars; TIME...
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Warner), the most crowded constellation Warner Bros, has ever assembled, surrounds Eddie Cantor with such newcomers to song & dance as Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan and Alexis Smith, who know their way around in this sort of work, help out. Veteran comics S. Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton help still more. But the picture is most amusing as a sort of glorified Amateur Night...
...story requires Mr. Cantor to portray himself as a Pandora's box of stale jokes, an egomaniac with whom Messrs. Horton & Sakall traffic only because he owns Dinah Shore, who is essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...
...Dinah Shore, singing Thank Your Lucky Stars, The Dreamer, and How Sweet...
...Early Days. That requires a lot of alcohol: Waller is 5 ft. 10 and weighs over 270 lb. That mass helps to account for the great strength of his basses, and makes his playing look as magisterial as it sounds. Whether he plays a stomping Dinah or lazy variations on When My Baby Smiles at Me, no other pianist gives quite his impression of commanding ease. Musicians he plays with sense it instantly, ease up themselves...