Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well they knew The Merry Widow! In 1907, the Widow's gay Viennese charm had captured Broadway. Merry Widow waltzes and Merry Widow hats swept the U.S. And the U.S. has pretty well stayed swept ever since...
This hunt, Kilty and co-promoter Peter Temple '46 2B affirm, casts no reflection upon the charm of the two other major female characters already selected, Jan Farrand as Crossida and Jeannie Tufts as Cassandra...
...simple-minded charm at moments, and it has Ray Bolger throughout. Bolger is not a great comic-just an awfully good one, which is quite a lot for someone who is also a great dancer. One of those rare males who prove amusing rather than embarrassing in women's clothes, Bolger clowns through the evening with his customary long-faced liveliness. And when he takes it into his feet to kick off both his petticoats and the plot, and spins in a medley of tap, softshoe, eccentric and ballroom dancing, Where's Charley? becomes the most delightful disappointment...
...looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, 'I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet...
...Wakeman has managed to get whiffs of the truth about them into his leading character. What is more important, Bob Montgomery performs wonders with the part. Montgomery is one of the few graceful actors left since the death of Osgood Perkins, and he appears to have wit, experience and charm to burn. This is not one of his better roles, and he successfully gives the illusion of playing it without ever touching the handlebars; but in the midst of a well-tooled piece of emptiness, his is an enchanting performance to watch...