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...movie is hardly more fortunate in its casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill...
...Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...
...Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...
...Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...
...Buoyant Billions is a rambling charade about a young world-betterer who ends up bettering only himself by marrying a rich man's daughter. The daughter, who lives in a jungle and enchants alligators and snakes by playing a saxophone, could have been a great Shaw character had she occurred to the master half a century earlier. The father has been a great Shaw character already-he is a reincarnation of the jovial merchant of death, Andrew Undershaft in Major Barbara, with less wit and more money (he is a billionaire instead of a millionaire). Most of the famed...