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Bambi (Disney; RKO-Radio) may not be "the best picture I have ever made, and the best ever to come out of Hollywood" (as Walt Disney claims, but it is in many respects the best of his six full-length cartoon movies. The chief hurdle it has to take is the high standard of its predecessors...
...movies than men. Many a picture has been made on this supposition- angling for a female trade often estimated at 70% of all tickets purchased. After a rigorous two-year investigation, Pollster George Gallup's Audience Research Institute (devoted exclusively to making cinema surveys for RKO-Radio and other moviemakers) has published some surprising statistics...
...Orson Welles prepared to return to Hollywood from Brazil (TIME, July 20) the following ad, signed by RKO's Brazilian manager, appeared in Rio de Janeiro papers: "RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., established in New York, U.S.A., hereby declares it will not assume responsibility for any acts committed by Orson Welles in Brazil...
...Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn; RKO-Radio) is, as nearly everybody knows, Gary Cooper impersonating Lou Gehrig, late, great first baseman of the New York Yankees. Some 80,000,000 U.S. baseball fans knew Gehrig or his picture by sight. A year ago, when he died at 38 of a rare, incurable form of paralysis, they virtually canonized him. To biographize him so soon was a ticklish job. Pride of the Yankees does it with taste and distinction...
...Magnificent Ambersons (Mercury; RKO-Radio) is a magnificent movie. It is also Round Two of the Orson Welles v. Hollywood set-to. The upstart young (27) producer-director-author-actor won Round One in a walk with his first picture, Citizen Kane (TIME, March 17, 1941), 1941's most provocative and exciting movie. Ambersons is not another Citizen Kane, but it is good enough to remove Director Welles for keeps from the novice or one-picture-prodigy class, and to further the feud...