Word: coburn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilson (Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Coburn; TIME...
Wilson (Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Coburn; TIME...
...Most potable offering was Knickerbocker Holiday (United Artists), a cine-version of the 1938 Broadway hit which delved deep into Manhattan's Dutch past in order to be thumpingly arch (in Gilbert & Sullivan style) about dictators, democracy, the masses, freedom of the press and young love. Cinemactor Charles Coburn plays Walter Huston's old part as a period dictator-Peter Stuyvesant. Nelson Eddy is the singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile...
...smiled and said: "I am thrilled and I am grateful." For his anti-Nazi stand in Watch on the Rhine, grave-toned Paul Lukas led the men. Other statuettes: 1) best film of 1943, Casablanca; 2) best director, Casablanca's Michael Curtiz; 3) best supporting actor, Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier; 4) best supporting actress, Greek-born Katina Paxinou-for her fire-&-ice Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...Cinderella in reverse" is Miss De Haviland's own description of the plot. She plays the rich princess to Robert Cummings' poor boy, while Charles Coburn makes a gruff fairy godfather. The worst that can be said of them is that Olivia is merely silly in a few scenes and that Cummings sometimes sinks to slapstick, though even much of that is managed expertly enough to be funny...