Word: chaplinitis
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Even more objectionable than censorship on moral grounds are the various attempts to ban or obstruct films on the basis of the political beliefs or activities of the artists involved. Chief among these transgressions is the American Legion's picketing of Charlie Chaplin's films, or even of Born Yesterday because Judy Holliday once signed a front organization's petition...
...play, and if so, how good a play? Having raised the first question, I shall drop it with the statement that whatever the proper lable for the work may be, it is often splendidly theatrical. With a surface reminiscent of a Charlie Chaplin film, it offers long stretches which are at once amusing and profound. But there are other stretches which are quite dull. The trouble here seems to be that Beckett ventured on dangerous ground when he did away with a plot and made his characters into symbols rather than people. The mainspring of drama is conflict between very...
...Manhattan switchboard, she brings hope, cheer, confusion and the vice squad into the lives of various unseen clients in whom she takes an unsolicited interest. With one of them (pleasantly played by Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie), she falls in love at first hearing. The love story of Bells Are Ringing is almost defiantly orthodox, but suffused as it is with Judy's warmth, never really becomes a burden. But it does bulk much too large for wit to keep pace with sentiment, for the Comden-Green book to display the usual fresh, crisp Comden-Greenness...
...more. Their consensus: a brilliant comedienne. Having previously all but ignored Marilyn's presence in Britain, the austere Times showed its rare enthusiastic side and proclaimed of Marilyn's performance in Bus Stop (TIME. Sept. 3): "What a partner she would have been for Chaplin in his heyday!" Thrummed the Daily Mail: "She reaffirms her position as the screen's most grown-up child actress...
...late Robert Newton, and most of the big stars are effectively scattered about the picture, like sequins on an elephant. But the star of stars is the famous Mexican comic, Cantinflas. In his first U.S. movie, he gives delightful evidence that he may well be, as Charles Chaplin once said he was, "the world's greatest clown...