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...Central Park (Universal-International) is the story of Boss Tweed in a Currier & Ives setting. A colleen (Deanna Durbin), just off the boat from Ireland, flirts with a whiz-bang muckraker (Dick Haymes) from the New York Times. Her illiterate father, in all innocence, fattens zoo pheasants for the table of sybaritic...
...Miss Durbin, prettily as she sings, still seems more like a canary than a woman; and by & large this production, like the musical comedy from which it is derived, is at best merely the least unpleasant way of surviving a class in civics...
...General Motors' C. E. Wilson ($303,990) and Great Lakes Steel Corp.'s George R. Fink ($275,000), the rest of the big money earners were Hollywood workers. As usual, Hollywood has the nation's highest paid women; Ginger Rogers ($292,159) was ahead of Deanna Durbin by $30,000. (Betty Grable, last year's winner, was farther down the list with...
...Deanna Durbin, 25, flouted Hollywood tradition by announcing the breakup of her marriage in a barely audible voice. (The marriage, to 45-year-old Scenarist Felix Jackson, was her second.) Deanna had her attorney murmur simply: "There is no difficulty ... of any particular public interest. Each of them declines to discuss the matter...
Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish...