SEVEN SWEETHEARTS
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OW, if Bluebeard were asked to appear on the screen with his bevy of beautiful wives, I suppose he’d be able to feel that he had some
sort of protection in his beard from the too-eager public gaze; but here is Mr. Van Heflin (Johnny Eager’s pal, the cute detective in Grand Central Murder), braving, without the comfort of even a toothbrush moustache-shelter, the rigours of a campaign opposite the 14 soft and shining eyes of the seven beautiful young dames who are the heroines of Seven Sweethearts. You have to hand it to Mr. Van Heflin. It would be tough enough to ask even a Hollywood star to compete with seven beautiful young actresses, each busy trying to steal the show; but Mr. Van Heflin has hardly been heard of yet, certainly his starshine isn’t bright enough to read by. But he takes them on, the seven of them (Kathryn Grayson, plus voice, Marsha Hunt, Cecilia Parker, and the rest of them; and, oh yes, they’re all busy trying .to steal the show), and he gets away with it. Yes. A hat-off to Mr. Van Heflin. A hat-off again to Mr. Van Heflin and also to Director Frank Borzage for introducing us to a reporter who is unimportant enough to look like a reporter. He is sent to report the tulip festival at a Dutch settlement in Michigan, arrives at a hotel kept by a fat Dutchman (played admirably by S. Z. Sakall), with seven beautiful Dutch daughters called George and Albert and Cornelius and Peter and so on. ("Well, father always wanted boys, so when we were born girls, he just called us boys’ names"), and then the rain begins. Imprisoned in the hotel, the young reporter fumes and grumbles at his luck.. ("Imagine being stuck on a job like this anyway, when there’s a war on"), and listens to long praise of the tulips. There are, however, seven beautiful daughters, and they and their charms cannot be overlooked, even by a disgruntled reporter. Seven Sweethearts isn’t a very serious film with a serious moral to point; it is a happy picture with a slight story and pretty dresses, dancing and singing. In fact, a film to see for. its ames
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 213, 23 July 1943, Page 13
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376SEVEN SWEETHEARTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 213, 23 July 1943, Page 13
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