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...serious student of Comparative Comedy can afford to finesse this eighty-minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since elevated to tonier company as "The Magnificent Yankee"--an embassy villain who early in the film loses his coattails, and his dignity, to the omni-present shears of Harpo, the foursome's fair-haired and superbly equipped delinquent...
...Jack H. Skirball) uses one of the grimmest moments of the war-the fall of France-for half-satiric, half-fantastic comedy. Its comic thesis is that flight from the Nazis makes strange carfellows. A swaggering, snooty Polish colonel with "a perfect 15th-Century mind" (well played by Louis Calhern) and a rueful, humorous, clever Jewish refugee (delightfully played by Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find a car; Jacobowsky finds one but cannot drive. Grandly tossing out Jacobowsky's luggage, the colonel condescends to take the wheel, and off they...
Essentially, "The Great Doorstep" is "Tobacco Road" with a Louisiana accent, and without the filth. The former is annoying, and the latter leaves you without even anything to argue about. The result is a waste of the fine comedy sense of Louis Calhern, who plays the leading role of Commodore Crochet, and of the sensitive dramatic talent of Dorothy Gizh, here his over suffering wife...
...father, Louis Calhern naturally sets the pace; the family and its inevitably visiting relations serve principally as objects of his self-important whim. One minute he is crying "damn the New Haven, another wreck!", the next finds him lecturing, with many an ejaculated "My God" at the sight of the monthly bills, upon the necessity of running the family on a "sound business basis." Here in truth is a one-man band playing with all the noise and car-splitting trumpet section of a high school brass combo. But there is gold beneath the brass, and father...
Birthday (by Aimee & Philip Stuart; Harmon & Ullman, producers). How does a sensitive child feel when her widowed mother decides to remarry? According to the playwrighting Stuarts, it depends on the character of the child. When Jennifer Lawrence (Peggy Wood) agrees to marry Sir John Corbett (Louis Calhern). her younger daughter. Baba. is thoroughly pleased. Baba (11-year-old Jeanne Dante, in her third play) is a pudgy little hedonist, fond of chocolates and a general good time. Sir John wins her affection easily with a theatre party and promises to teach her to play golf, sail a boat, ride...