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...bell, but they do bag 1) an average musical wartime romance (Private Gene Kelly v. Colonel's-Daughter Kathryn Grayson), 2) a brisk, hefty variety show featuring a clutch of M.G.M. stars and three bands (Kay Kyser, Bob Crosby, Benny Carter), 3) Pianist José Iturbi in his screen debut...
...Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky" bearable in Let There Be Music. Senor Iturbi, forced by the curious exigencies of the screen to prove that he is almost anything else but a ranking pianist, trots out some fair boogie-woogie, takes care to play nothing worth hearing in one of the best recordings a screen piano has ever received...
...There is also much dancing, and singing of such deathless ditties as Rosie, Waiting at the Church, Two Little Girls in Blue, plus the new catchy Goin' to the County Fair and the sure-fire My Heart Tells Me (which Miss Grable, enjoying her first bath on the screen, sings from a tall wooden bathtub...
...answer was that on dismissing him, the roentgenologist said to an assistant, 'N.P.' In Mayo Clinic cipher this meant 'no plates,' and indicated that the roentgenologist was so satisfied with the normal appearance of the stomach on the roentgenoscopic screen [fluoroscope] that he did not see any sense in making films. But to the patient, ... it meant 'nothing possible'; in other words, that the situation was hopeless...
...Cantor also plays a Hollywood guide whose lifelong tragedy, cheating him of a screen career, is his resemblance to Eddie Cantor. This damaged soul lives among others of Hollywood's lumpenproletariat in Gower Gulch, a sort of surrealist Hooverville. Eventually the true Cantor is kidnapped by Gower Gulch Indians who adopt him into the tribe for the benefit of a LIFE photographer (flatteringly misrepresented by Joan Leslie). At the climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered...