Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havilland possesses all the personal charm of a marshmallow which can also cook. She also has distinct limitations as a comedienne, not much helped when she has to sob about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip and Daumier...
...Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming some comic local lackeys and an eager Broadway producer (Walter Catlett). At last, at a Butlers' Ball, she utters some high notes which pierce the heart of her brother's boss. She also sings a slice of hickory-smoked Victor Herbert and an aria from Puccini's Turandot with her familiar...
These captions of his drawings are lively clues to the imagination of James Thurber. This week The New Yorker's famous comic master of neurasthenia-and its illumination of the so-called normal world-publishes his first picture book in ten years, Men, Women and Dogs (Harcourt, Brace; $3). Thurber has published a dozen books of prose and pictures which have already taken their places among the humorous classics of the U.S. The new book offers Thurber's grateful public 205 pages of devastating deraillery in line and punchline...
...believe in Purgatory." There were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written by the Queen when young." ("Really!" snorted Her Majesty, "Never could the Queen in her whole life write one line of poetry serious or comic or make a Rhyme even.") A Miss Low asked "if she can be informed whether Your Majesty as a child liked dolls." ("The Queen has no hesitation in saying that she was quite devoted to dolls...
...Manhattan art theater, is still packing the place after nine weeks, drew the epithet "delightful" from leather-mouthed Walter Winchell, and has just been nationally released. With nothing more than their bare hands, a little intelligence, tenderness and characterization, the creators of Jeannie tackle a grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander her father's "entire fortune" (a bequest...