Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unable to collect royalties in a cemetery. There were plenty of royalties-from his succession of Broadway hits (The College Widow, The Sultan of Sulu), and from his famed Fables in Slang. In the Fables, wit-coated little tales told in capital letters, an American generation found a peculiar charm, for George Ade reworked the goody-goody stories of his time through a screen of Big City sophistication, making them gay but not risqu...
...wiry Captain can infuse some of his own warm personality into stories about the Princess, his success should be assured. He can literally charm a bird out of a tree. Near his country home sparrows and blue-tits used to fly out to meet him (but not, he swears, in formation). In London, his whistled bird calls are enough to lure a tough, sophisticated, citified St. James's Park bird into his hand...
What gives this film its callow charm? It is based on realism and on the comedy and basic good nature of U.S. character, however sugared and caricatured. Mickey Rooney's imitation of a boy's good & bad manners aboard a train is a bit of universal human comedy which Rooney's broad-axed clowning recklessly highlights. The Andy Hardy pictures are practically the only contemporary screen scratchings into the Comstock lode of U.S. genre comedy. Bad as they are, they are the nearest screen equivalent to Charles Dickens...
...Highland Fling (by Margaret Curtis; produced by George Abbott) is as Scottish as it sounds but hardly as lively. A yarn about the ghost of a rakish 18th-Century laird, it tries for both rowdy fun and romantic charm, never quite spears either...
...bishop thinks the charm of his bleak, almost treeless island has grown on servicemen. Many have told him they plan to return for postwar visits. Says he: "American soldiers are going to be Iceland's biggest advertisement when the war is over...