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...routine called Puttin' on the Ritz, one dazzling scene in Blue Skies where trick photography fills the screen with a full chorus of fast-stepping Astaires, will not dim his reputation as a hell of a dancer. The hardest of four numbers he designed for the picture, it took him five weeks of what he calls "backbreaking physical work...
...Screen Love...
...Screen Guild (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, with Doug Fairbanks Jr., Lionel & Ethel Barrymore...
Alan Ladd, second only to Humphrey Bogart in consecutive hours of gun toting on the screen, tensely blows up tunnels, sends coded radio messages, and outwits the gestapo for Uncle Sam in "O.S.S." Based on actual events and produced under government supervision, Ladd's efforts as a spy in France just before and after the Normandy invasion generate a steady, if low, level of interest...
...were not for its heartbreaking subject, Sister Kenny could be lauded as a slick, above-average screen biography. But the whole subject of polio, its cause and its treatment, is of deep concern to every parent in the world. Any distortion or any half-truth on the subject can be both cruel and dangerous. The film's most outstanding distortions, implied rather than explicitly stated...