Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schoenberg masterpiece. Startlingly crotic despite the Victorian costumes, and moving languidly to a climax, "Pillar of Fire" had the comprehensibility and emotional impact of a drama as well as the grace of ballet technique. But the entire program was masterful with the balance of contrasting classical, modern-dramatic, and comic techniques...
...Pearl Harbor, where he was the first man to bag a Jap plane. He had studio telephone operators put through a call to a nurse named Rosella Nesgis, in Pearl Harbor. It seems that while nursing Sailor Van Keuren's wounds, Rosella had also read him his favorite comic strips. Hopping to the phone, he blurted happily to her: "I never look at Popeye without thinking...
...Sister Eileen (Columbia) was made from the play which was made from the stories by Ruth McKenney. It is a brisk sister act on one of the century's favorite comic themes-that of the two young women from the sticks, one plain and smart, the other lovely and not so smart, who try their luck in the metropolis...
Rosalind Russell handles Sister Ruth's wit & wisdom with the neat feeling for bias on which she tailors her comic flair. Newcomer Janet Blair, as Sister Eileen, is as fetching as a soda-fountain special at the end of a hot day. Male cinemaddicts will regard her as so much guileless natural force disguised in sprigged muslin. Her prototype, Eileen McKenney, was killed (with her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West) in an auto crash (TIME...
...underlying coltishness has always been one of Ginger Rogers' strongest assets; here, it is the whole show. Her scenes on the train are at once broad, delicate and unflaggingly funny. In the cadets, she has some of the stiffest comic competition of the year. Ginger's real-life mother has a pleasant maternal moment playing her cinemama. Scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder seem to know all there is to know about the comedy inherent in the schoolboy mind. Billy Wilder, directing his first picture, puts it deftly across...