Word: priscilla
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...Reno converged some 20,000 cinemaddicts in all stages of esthetic and convivial excitement. They came by car, bus, train, plane. Present were the Governors of five States, 50 movie stars, including Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Tom Mix, Mary Astor, May Robson, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy. Three special trains transported newshawks from Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles...
Three Cheers for the Irish (Warner Bros.) is a rehash of most of the stock gags, situations and sentiments vaudeville has for generations connected with Celts. Somehow Thomas Mitchell was snared into playing the lead as an Irish cop. Priscilla Lane is his daughter whose elopement with her father's Scawttish supplanter on the police force (Dennis Morgan) complicates further the picture's leitmotif-the family feud between the Scotch and the Irish...
...other rats, Wayne Morris and Ronald Reagan, continue their campaign to capture Priscilla Lane and Jane Wyman. Though they don't quite succeed, they enjoy themselves thoroughly. In fact everybody has a fine time except the Mongoose, a snaky rat who gets pushed around because his technique is bad. The threat of a sequel to the sequel, presumably called "Brother Rat and Two Babies," looms unpleasantly as the "plot" (replete with faked telegrams, wrecked Rolls Royces, and Stradivarii) reaches its involved conclusion...
...disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns coward under fire. Reclaimed by a well-placed shot and the ministrations of Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), Jerry dies in battle. But this time valor is its only reward. There is not a girl in The Fighting 69th, luscious Priscilla Lane having been withdrawn at zero hour from the stag cast by what seems a prudent studio decision...
Four Wives (Rosemary, Priscilla & Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains; TIME...