Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speeding through Harlem, drawling Negro Comic Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Perry) had a blowout, smashed his Lincoln sedan into an Elevated pillar, cracked his skull, demolished...
...Prince and the Pauper is not and does not aim to be screen drama of cosmic import, superspectacle or Hollywood picture-poem. It does aim to be, and is, a frisky, fresh and wholly likable comedy by the best comic writer, for the screen or otherwise, whom the U. S. has yet produced. Directed by William Keighley, acted by Warner Brothers' most high-powered cast since Midsummer Night's Dream, staged by Robert Lord and scored by Erich Korngold, it should amply grace next fortnight's Coronation. It should also grace, if not climax, the careers...
...Pittsburgh's South Side steel district, once ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Sipping a bottle of beer in his office last week he observed: "Knights of the Hose is a name that fully covers our business, and any Knight or future Knight can readily see that the serious and comic slants of our business are tied together so closely that we cannot tell at times which is serious and which is fun." Grand Knight Ellis gave all credit for the founding of his organization to Chief Pump Knight E. Chat Shanks, NAPR's executive secretary who makes his headquarters...
Director Michael Curtiz keeps his picture off the ground by his comic talent supplied by Guy Kibbee as the country doctor and the doc's fiancee of twenty years, Margaret Hamilton. Mona Barrie and the amiable Fuzzy Knight do creditably in somewhat conventional supplementing roles...
Married. Gina Malo (Janet Flynn), 30, Cincinnati musicomedienne; and Romney Brent (Romulo Larralde), 35, Mexican-born comic with whom she is playing in On Your Toes; in London...