Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Jim, husband number one, shows up at a nearby seaport, an embarrassing situation rears its provocative head. From the simple idea of what each member of the family imagines he will say to the returning hero, Barry has fashioned a series of artful dream sequences which pack a comic punch and no little satire...
Other columnists and letter writers took up the protest. The New York Times lectured: "[The U.S. soldier] is never a nameless character in a comic strip, and maybe we should stop treating him as such...
...credit side, "Can't Help Singing" has some good songs which, unfortunately for this movie's box-office, sound better out of context in the juke box. Occasionally, too there is some comic relief by Akim Tamiroff and others that departs from pattern...
Bing suffers in this film Bob Hope did in "The princess and The Pirate." Together, the two are comedians separately, Bob is a comic without a foil and Bing a straight man struggling to be funny. Except for his painful parody of Frank Sinatra, Bing's singing is regular Crosby stuff and good if you like...
...After Li'l Abner's buxom, bucolic sweetheart in Al Capp's comic strip...