Word: canova
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from being too long and too silly, Yokel Boy is very fair entertainment. Comes Love should join the season's song hits. The chorus looks good and dances better. Judy Canova is an admirably droll musicomedy Sis Hopkins who flops only when she confuses herself with Bea Lillie. Yokel Boy Buddy Ebsen can use his feet. Tiny, titillating Dixie Dunbar can use her body. And Phil Silvers clowns convincingly as a loud, long-fingered Hollywood agent...
...girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming the Battle of Lexington and, always a stickler for accuracy, the scene is filmed in Lexington, Mass. There live such citizens as Buddy Ebsen--you guessed it, he's the Yokel Boy--Lois January, Judy Canova and other individuals who by the middle of the first act have all wandered out to Hollywood and are more or less occupied in Rubbish's Colossal Studios...
Said bewildered Sculptor Vittor: "Napoleon's Josephine posed for Canova without a bathing suit. After all Miss Leaver didn't pose in the nude and there's nothing to offend her. . . . My brother Anthony and I had every measurement. We had photographs of her. We had a chart...
Messrs. Holtz & Baker, in boots, dilapidated hats and hickory shirts, courting Judy Canova, a dry, hillbilly Beatrice Lillie, with a spurious mountain ballad...
...entertainment. As its title would suggest, the show is predicated upon the assumption that lots of varied talent can be welded into pleasing entertainment. Lou Holtz and Phil Baker are well known comedians and with the exception of a very few dull moments are genuinely amusing throughout. Judy Canova and her family of hillbillies provide the high spot of the show's comedy efforts with an amusing skit and a very funny song which brought them long and loud applause. The deep voice of Gertrude Niessen is well known to radio listeners, but her exceedingly attractive person should, we hope...