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She has not seen and doesn't intend to see her picture ("I'm not ready to cut my throat yet"). But, remembering it as work-in-progress, she believes that movies can be "just like the stage . . . as subtle, and about things that matter." The intelligence of the general screen audience, she feels sure, is "very much underrated." Just now, beginning a run in the play Embezzled Heaven (TIME, Nov. 13), she is not thinking much about pictures, but she hopes to work in them again—"If," she takes care to say, "it's just like it was before."
Rainbow Island (Paramount) is a Technicolored mythical kingdom somewhere west of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, inhabited by Dorothy Lamour and sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence—a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy act involving Eddie Bracken and a very hungry man-eating flower; 3) some amusingly parodistic Oriental music by Roy Webb and a catchy song, The Boogie, Woogie, Boogie Man; 4) enough general ribbing of sarong and tomtom pictures to make a thin but fairly likable piece of musical ridiculousness.