Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a quarter-century, Josephine Baker of the Folies Bergere and other Parisian spots has been the cream in French coffee, but she never thought she could be the same kind of success in the U.S.A. This week La Baker was learning better. Billed into Broadway's big, brassy Strand Theater for a three-week run, she had made such a hit that she was thinking about a U.S. tour...
Souvaine, apparently more interested in sentiment than mathematics, shrugs aside the fact that Rodgers' first Broadway show (A Lonely Romeo) was produced 32 years ago; his first hit (Garrick Gaieties), 26 years...
...film lacks the pace and style of a good Broadway show (or of MGM's own On the Town). Its songs & dances serve merely as interludes in the kind of plot that cinemagoers know too well. But within these tired limits, the movie offers some amusing comedy, expert staging of individual numbers, bright lyrics by Alan Jay (Brigadoon) Lerner and, best of all, Fred Astaire who, at 51, has never danced with greater skill or ingenuity...
Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...
...movie oils its large-scale, mechanized slapstick with some of the camaraderie of Broadway's Mister Roberts. It also wisely recruits a key enlisted man (Harvey Lembeck) from that show's original cast. Unfortunately, the script is not up to the job of sustaining the hilarity of its idea at feature length. The picture loses pressure when repeating its shenanigans, sighs windily in romantic interludes between Cooper and his WAVE wife (Jane Greer). But more frequently, when it gets up a full head of steam, U.S.S. Teakettle bubbles with...