Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married An Angel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) vigorously rubs the bloom from the wings of the brisk, fresh, imaginative musical that ran on Broadway four years ago. Then it had bounce, charm, a good Rodgers & Hart score, and the electric presence of grave, ashen, graceful Vera Zorina, every man's idea of a down-to-earth angel. M.G.M.'s cineversion has the R. & H. melodies (ponderously played), Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, and a fantastically mutilated plot...
Most of Hollywood's Angel transpires in the dreamworld of dimpled, operatic Nelson Eddy. As Budapest's jaded Count Willy Palaffi, Eddy falls asleep vowing he will marry nothing less than an angel. Obligingly, M.G.M. sends him Jeanette MacDonald (complete with wings). Since not even camera magic can etherealize perdurable Angel MacDonald, this is one dream to stump Freud-especially when DreamerEddy takes his Angel for a dream honeymoon in Paris...
Last week he got bored. Slipping out of prison in what State Prosecutor Luis Angel Rodriguez termed "an inexplicable manner," Fernando tossed off a few tequilas with some friends, then vaulted the garden wall of the widow of the man he had killed and set about earnestly serenading her. He was finally collected, plopped back into jail under an additional charge of trespassing. Senor Rodriguez further announced that, in addition to serenading the woman he had widowed, Fernando Ortiz Rubio had written "improper expressions" on the wall of her house...
...Best newcomers: Judith Evelyn, as the harassed, hysterical wife in Angel Street, Avon Long as the brilliantly capering Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess...
Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order--when...