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Father Takes a Wife (RKO Radio) is tailored to measure for almond-eyed Gloria Swanson, making her reappearance on the screen after seven years. A sophisticated comedy with enough snap in its dialogue and situations to earn a passing grade, it demands only a minimum performance from the hard-eyed, prognathous beauty who was once queen of the silent movies...
Parachute Battalion (RKO Radio) is exciting proof that World War II is eminently photogenic. Although the picture's foremost actors, the U.S. Army's 501st Parachute Battalion, are now at peace, their heavenly ballet is a hair-raising dress rehearsal of war's newest...
...hackneyed story of how the Army made parachutists out of a feuding hillbilly (Buddy Ebsen), a colonel's son who thought himself yellow (Edmond O'Brien) and an amorous football hero (Robert Preston) is that the picture survives the plot's monkeyshines. Better left unmentioned is RKO's error in making its football chutist an All-American from Harvard, a university which has not turned out a bona fide All-American in nine years...
...world's political hot spots made his name. Now he is cashing in on the by-products of his reputation. Besides his take from writing and broadcasting, he is getting a fee reported to be around $20,000 for nine weeks' work as technical adviser for an RKO film called Passage from Bordeaux (adapted from a novelette by Budd Schulberg). Shirer was offered a small part in this refugee drama as a radio broadcaster but turned it down on the grounds that his screen face is depressing...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...