Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though long a popular draw in theater and nightclubs, Durante was never a top smash in either radio or movies (see CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral...
...Cinema...
...Affaire opens tomorrow at the Little Carnegie, while Bitter Rice (Italian) hangs on at the World, Paris 1900 at the Paris, Marriage of Figaro at the Little Cinema, and for those who might possibly not have seen it, the Red Shoes is at the Bijou. The Happlest Days of Your Life closes at the Little Carnegie with tonight's showing. W. Somerset Maugham's Trio plays at the Sutton...
...Robert Frost story makes us remember-if we had forgotten it-that there live in the United States, close beside famed businessmen, generals and cinema actors, men who are still able to enjoy woods and grey, snowy skies...
...Lauren Bacall and pretty much let the Hemingway story alone. Then, in 1948, they borrowed one of the novel's episodes for the climax of Key Largo. At last the studio has made a film of the book itself. The result is an expert piece of hard-boiled cinema...