September 23 movie: Her Highness And The Bellboy. Another silly movie, this one a romantic comedy. Robert Walker plays a hotel bellboy who becomes infatuated with a foreign princess (Hedy Lamarr) staying at the hotel. That part was fun; the annoying part was Walker's perfectly sweet and chaste, sickly, bed-ridden girlfriend played by June Allyson. She lies on a couch making Santa Claus figurines to be sold in gift shops, and smiling through her tears while Walker neglects her for the princess. Give me a break! The character really brought out the saccharine worst in Allyson.
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