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Colorado Commando. In Grand Junc tion, Colo., Herbert Krueger rushed to the aid of Russian guerrillas as they walked into a Nazi machine-gun trap, let out a bloodthirsty yell just as the cinema screen collapsed over his head, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace...
...nature of U.S. character, however sugared and caricatured. Mickey Rooney's imitation of a boy's good & bad manners aboard a train is a bit of universal human comedy which Rooney's broad-axed clowning recklessly highlights. The Andy Hardy pictures are practically the only contemporary screen scratchings into the Comstock lode of U.S. genre comedy. Bad as they are, they are the nearest screen equivalent to Charles Dickens...
...playing love scenes Ingrid Bergman has no contemporary equal. She appears not only to know the emotion and how to make it come to life on the screen, but also to realize, as no other screen actress does, that love is made up of kinds of candor, force and delicateness against which, so far, the Hays Office has contrived no adequate nets. There is a breathtaking honeymoon moment, expressed simply in Cinemactress Bergman's sure, elated walk from her bedside to her husband, which for plenitude and beauty has not been approached since Garbo's great days...
...young woman who is shown making adjustments is trifling with a g-rt-r, a lubricous article of dress which may never again enliven the U.S. screen. Reason: last week it joined the sw-t-r on the black list of the Hays office.* In desperation at the recent Hays crackdown on leg art, Hollywood publicity cameramen have taken to shooting backsides, which are still within the law. Cracked one harried publicity agent: "Gee, if this keeps up, we'll just have to shoot pictures of girls in the nude...
Left. By the late Leslie Howard, stage & screen star: to his widow, son and daughter, an estate of $251,000; to Violette Cunnington, his secretary, his Beverly Hills house. Miss Cunnington died six months before the actor was lost in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane, reportedly shot down by the Nazis...