Word: colonnas
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...Czarist Russia to the swamp land of Louisiana with nothing more than a Valentine card in between to announce the transition. Only twice is the film worthy of the reputation of Walt Disney and of Disney's former achievements. "Casey at the Bat" features the voice of Jerry Colonna plus some very fine satire on rattling the pitcher and whipping the ball around the infield after each out. It is reminiscent of Disney's "How to Play Baseball" of four years ago, one of the funniest cartoons ever released. In "Willie the Whale" Nelson Eddy does a commendable...
Some of the kidding of baseball mannerisms in Jerry Colonna's recitation of Casey...
...timing, intonation and repetition which made Jerry Colonna's "Who's Yehudi?" funny to U.S. audiences is a rough U.S. equivalent of ITMA's appeal. Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
With a star-spangled dramatis personae including Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Moore, William Bendix, Jerry Colonna, and Robert Benchley, "It's in the Bag" sounds like a funnyman version of the Warner and MGM gargantuas, but is instead a movie version of the Texaco Star Theater, complete with Mrs. "No-o-o-o?" Noosbaum...
...Carradine) are crooks who will not only not stop at murder but prefer to begin with it; gangsters (William Bendix et al.) hold stockholders' meetings as punctiliously as any other big businessmen; the high priest of the mysteries exhumed by Sigmund Freud is a wild-eyed goon (Jerry Colonna) who can't stop slapping his own face. There is also a capitalist (Robert Benchley) who appears at his daughter's wedding with a neon endorsement of his product-PARKER'S PASTE KILLS RATS-glowing on the back of his frock coat...