Word: boffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Based on the Broadway boff that was based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, the film affects to explain how a nice little girl from Seattle grew up to be the genius of grind. The explanation is Momma. As Roz portrays her, Momma Hovick is the matriarchetype of the stage mother, an all-too-human dynamo who sees in her daughters, big clumsy Louise (Natalie Wood) and talented little June (Ann Jilliann), a second chance at fame...
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...