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Without Reservations (RKO Radio) rescues Claudette Colbert from the whale-boned dignity of her recent mother-with-grown-children roles, brings her back again as the giggly, harebrained, pratfalling heroine of a romantic farce. In this highly specialized type of film, Veteran Colbert excels. The screwball love story was excellent entertainment when she first tried it back in 1934 (It Happened One Night). It is still surprisingly good-and so is Claudette...
...principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike, RKO...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 28, minx-eyed cinemactress; and William Dozier, 38, RKO production executive; both for the second time; in Mexico City...
Make Mine Music (Walt Disney-RKO Radio), which has been described by one wag as the poor man's Fantasia, is a Technicolored musical blue-plate special, prepared for the 18-to-2 y-year-old age group which has heretofore proved least responsive to Disney films...
...from Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...