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...prize cattle that provided the steaks.) The crowd whooped it up so hard that speeches by McCarthy, Texas' Governor Beauford Jester and Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Leo Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones sat it all out quietly. Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie off the air. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sniffing through the hotel, found its long green corridors "depressing," concluded that it was a "tragic . . . imitation...
Some of you may have thought that the Nineteenth Century mortgage melodrama was dead, but if so, you have sadly underestimated Hollywood's talent for reincarnation. "In "The Girl from Mauhattan," the second picture at the Pilgrim, the mortgage foreclosure appears with all its hideous threats and Dorothy Lamour as the hapless victim. But a few enticing twists have been added. The villain doing the foreclosing is, of all things, a church looking for a new site, and the hero is an all-American fullback turned minister. Dorothy Lamour, Charles Laughton, and George Montgomery are all involved in this hideous...
...drinking Lawyer Malone (Brian Donlevy) wriggles into trouble and out again with monotonous regularity. For a while, he divides his time between a nightclub crooner (Dorothy Lamour) and a rich, fusty old client (Marjorie Rambeau). Then the crooner is convicted of murdering her boss. When she is supposedly executed (but actually spared by the governor), Donlevy gets a chance to put all his troubles under one roof: he moves beautiful Miss Lamour into the house with the old lady...
With a fair amount of restraint for a mystery-comedy, The Lucky Stiff confines itself to only four murders. It could stand a few more laughs. Even its romance dwindles off when Lawyer Donlevy decides to ration the women in his life. He gives up Lamour, but holds on to both Client Rambeau (whose fees pay a lot of bills), and his long-suffering secretary (Claire Trevor) who tells him which bills must be paid...
...Hollywood, newshens of the Women's Press Club voted Errol Flynn and Rita Hayworth* the "least cooperative" actor and actress of the year. Runners-up: Bing Crosby (a perennial) and Shirley Temple. The "most cooperative": Dorothy Lamour, past mistress of the sarong, and Glenn Ford, Rita's most recent screen leading...