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...film is almost 100% good, rich Hope, uncomplicated by music, choruses or rival gagsters. For support he has Dorothy Lamour, fully dressed for the first time since The Fleet's In, and a prepossessing newcomer-a Yugoslavian refugee named Lenore Aubert, who may make people forget Hedy Lamarr. There is also Mary Byrne, who left a job as a Washington secretary to play a Washington secretary. But in They Got Me Covered the girls merely serve as feeders for Bob Hope. The Young Master takes charge of nearly every scene...
...Hope has a chin like a snowplow, a nose that led Comic Fred Allen to describe him as "ski-snoot," and a trigger wit that produces a crop of studio stories with every Hope picture. This time, the first day on the set Hope took one look at Miss Lamour's fulsome costume-suit, blouse, stockings, etc.-and exclaimed: "For heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope, who looked...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...
Recently at this studio it was decided to reopen the completed Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour comedy, They Got Me Covered, for addition of a sequence depicting, perhaps prophetically, the flight of Mussolini from Italy. In preparing the actor for the role, the makeup and wardrobe departments used TIME, Dec. 14, for the most characteristic pose of II Duce...
Until a few months ago the U.S. and Australian troops in New Guinea were treated at long intervals to grey-bearded hits like Broadway Bill. Now they get some new films (their favorites are musicals, especially the Crosby-Hope-Lamour circuses). The man who brought the movies to the jungle is New Guinea's Red Cross Field Director, Jimmy Stewart (not to be confused with Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, now a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps...