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Once More, With Feeling. In the screen adaptation of the Broadway comedy, Yul Brynner tends to break arms instead of tickling funny bones, but the late Kay Kendall shows that she was a lovely clown with a touch of genius...
Once More, With Feeling. In the screen adaptation of the Broadway comedy, Yul Brynner tends to break arms instead of tickling funny bones, but the late Kay Kendall shows that not only was she a lovely clown, but one with a touch of genius...
Once More, With Feeling (Stanley Donen; Columbia). "Wouldn't you like to slip into something loose?" Yul Brynner purrs seductively to his bride. "Yes," Kay Kendall snarls. "A taxi...
...much of the rest of the show, adapted by Playwright Harry Kurnitz from his Broadway farce (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958), is unfortunately not very funny. For one thing, when Actor Brynner sets out to tickle the funnybone, he practically breaks the spectator's arm. For another, Kurnitz' shock gags require the physical presence of the actors for their effect. But in the film version the actors are not actually there, the shock often fails to come through, the laughs often fail to come off. Still, there are a few bits of memorably daffy backchat (Trustee...
Once More was completed last July, two months before Actress Kendall's death, at 33, of leukemia. Many of her scenes were shot while she had a high fever. Nevertheless, she gives in her last picture what is possibly her funniest film performance. At one point, while Brynner is chasing her around his den, she peers at him through the strings of a harp, and with the merest curl of the upper lip contrives to suggest that she is a caged and ferocious lioness. At another, bedded with a banging hangover, she suddenly gets a mad glint...