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...splutter in Technicolor for Warner Bros. Warners will give the owners (Mrs. Clarence Day, Producer Oscar Serlin, Dramatists Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) $500,000 down and half the gross, cannot release Father before 1947, must obey the owners' Ten Commandments (sternest commandment: thou shalt not film any script of which we disapprove...
...intensely ambitious, Johnson lives even more simply than the average young star. His agent allows him $25 of his comparatively modest $750 a week for spending money; the rest goes into War Bonds and toward buying a house. He gets to bed by nine each working night, studies his script for an hour, smokes his one cigaret of the day. By mid-afternoon each day his right eye begins to droop and he has to take time off ; another result of his accident is an all but continuous headache...
Hardly another "Oklahoma!", "Sing Out, Sweet Land!" is a handsome, spirited, and highly appealing production in its own right. Walter Kerr's idea is a winning one and two acts of second-rate script writing cannot overshadow the warm American tone...
...however, and allowing "Oklahoma!" to go its perpetual way, there are some good words to be said. The staging and costumes are not lavish, but they have the far more to be desired beauty of gay simplicity. There is sufficient sparkle and dash to make you forget the mediocre script, and make you remember that you are living in a vigorous land with a heritage of vitality...
...script writer for M.G.M., she had given up her Hollywood career to go to the Far East. She was at her husband's side in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked, lost everything but the sweater and slacks she was wearing when they bombed Manila and burned her home to the ground. On New Year's Eve she made a last-minute getaway to Bataan-caught a little island freighter at midnight as the Manila docks went up in flames...