The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1943

Coney Island (20th Century-Fox). The Technicolor cameras of this picture will turn many a spectator green with envy. They have been allowed a prolonged fondling of Betty Grable. Behind and around her moves a recreation of vintage-1905 sporting life with a noisy host of roisterers, pitchmen, barflies, and by-no-means-innocent bystanders. Miss Grable's tunes, dances, and virtually unprintable person will take full care of the general public. Film epicures will also be ravished by unoriginal but wonderful color-camera work on the gaudy, splendidly researched subject of oldtime Coney-Island-by-the-Sea.

Green-suited Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery) is...

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