Marc Eliot’s Art of Film

Alexander Hall’s 1947 Down to Earth

The sequel to Hall’s Here Comes Mr. Jordan, with several cast members from the original reappearing, including Edward Everett Horton and James Gleason. The film stars Rita Hayworth at her most glamorous and Larry Parks, best-known for his portrayal of Al Jolson in two  biographical films that made Parks one of the biggest stars of the ‘40s. His career was cut short a few years later by the “blacklisting” hearings conducted by HUAC in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, one of the major tragedies of the studio era. Highly entertaining, this is a perfect Sunday brunch of a movie. Come see it!