March 18, 1944
HOLLYWOOD, March 17 — Warners are going all out for American movies, and if you want to call that “flag waving” it’s all right with them. As Jack Warner says: “You can’t wave a better flag!” One of the first of the specials will be “San Antonio,” a saga of Texas and the Alamo which should be a minor sized riot where the Texas are concerned….
IT’S GOSSIPED IN MOVIE CIRCLES that Columbia has bought “Burlesque” for Rita Hayworth.
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Bill Robinson, tap dancer extraordinaire, was “The Dark Cloud Of Joy”? Who knew?
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That’s a new one on me…. 🙂
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Just thinking with bitterness how “Tender Comrade” was used as an example of “communist propaganda” during the HUAC hearings.
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At one point during the worst of the Red scare, Hedda Hopper criticized “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as being un-American for criticizing Congress.
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