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...Baltimore plumber, won a harmonica contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun. He shrewdly sized up the judges as serious musicians, played a Beethoven minuet instead of the popular tunes submitted by other contestants. Mouth Organist Adler went to Manhattan, at 16 played a bit in Flo Ziegfeld's Smiles, became a protégé of Eddie Cantor, whom he slightly resembled. In his early stage turns, Larry Adler wore ragamuffin garb, a conventional uniform for harmonicists. But after C. B. Cochran took him to London in 1934 nothing less than white tie & tails would do. Since then, Harmonicist...
...fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...
...Ziegfeld Girls turn out like Sheila. Two who glorify differently are sultry Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr), who discovers that the violinist husband she left behind is more exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does...
...cost M.G.M. $5,000 to pick the chorus for Ziegfeld Girl. It was worth it. The dozen front-line show girls should paralyze the most case-hardened stage-door-Johnny. Most of them are titled: Miss North America 1940, Miss Mission Trails, Miss Pacific Coast, Miss Venus, etc. Like the Ziegfeld Girls of old, they do not have to act, just undulate...
...spite of its pretensions Ziegfeld Girl is plot-heavy, entertainment-shy. It does not come up to the master effort of Director Robert Z. Leonard-The Great Ziegfeld. But it does offer generous illustration of man's Third Basic Need...