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Perched in his San Simeon splendor, Mr. Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...
...Girl and a Gob (RKO Radio). Coffee Cup (George Murphy) is a whacky extrovert of the Step-Right-Up-and-Call-Me-Speedy school with a TNT punch, an irrepressible line of chatter, a knack-for betting on the wrong side, an unfailingly empty purse. Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball) is the girl. Belabored by a shiftless family of zanies and a vague inclination towards matrimony, she seems completely satisfied just tagging along with Coffee Cup as he churns up street brawls, whirls around the dance halls or lounges in a hamburger joint with his sailor pals. Dot's boss...
...Smith (RKO Radio) will be a shock to film followers who think that roly-poly British Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes) can do no wrong. His first comedy, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is run-of-the-mill Hollywood farce, suggests that Hitchcock would do well to stick to melodrama...
...Nanette (RKO Radio). This resurrection of a 1925 musicomedy features ex-Chorine Anna Neagle, who rose to fame after her appearances in British films. Unfortunately, the Empire touch has passed lightly over just the asset of No, No, Nanette which pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...
...emigrated to European film studios, where he has throbbed feminine hearts in English, French and Italian pictures. Biggest asset of Cinemactor Lodge is his perfect mastery of these tongues. Says he: "We think it is cute here to have an accent, but not the French." Too Many Girls (RKO Radio) is Broadway Producer-Director George Abbott's faithful reconstruction of his gay stage hit of last season about football and females in a Southwestern college. With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short glimpses of some...