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Bells Are Ringing (Arthur Freed; M-G-M). In this $3,000,000 Metrocolored musical based on her Broadway boff of 1956, Judy Holliday employs her limited vocal resources with showmanly style, supports them with a comic gift that is a major wonder of the entertainment world, and with some skillful assistance from Director Vincente (Gigi) Minnelli manages to jog and jazz and jigger a merely middling book and some fairly forgettable tunes into one of the year's liveliest and wittiest cinemusicals...
...Boff & Grunt. His frankness interlarded with frenzy and his open face barred with a villainous black mustache, Appel happily plays the abstract-expressionist role. Painting, he says, "is a battle! Boff goes the paint! It explodes! It's an adventure! It's destroying what I've done before!" At the easel, he swirls, smears and stabs with tubes in mid-squeeze, a palette knife, his hands and, occasionally, a brush, grunting as he works. In a few hours, the picture is done: a wet, gaudy mass of color violently heaped and stirred. Sometimes it is a brutally...
Broadway show biz'll boast another bim-bam boff when this one gets to the Big City. Yessir, as every other Boston theatre expert has noted with his customary originality, the bells are ringing for Bells Are Ringing all over town...
...muscles and you can't let down for one minute." After three months, she felt she had learned again how to play with other actors and was relearning how to get laughs: "You have to build it from the snickers to the belly to the boff. Sometimes you lose it and get nothing-then you have to work to get it back." The show cost $14,000 to put on and made $600,000 in the 18 weeks that Ros was in it. Most important, the tour got "the kinks" out of her body and helped her make...
Maybe it was, at that. Anyway, the writers, polled by the Associated Press, thought this boff was better than such items...