Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mediator between these two conflicting forces is a sympathetic but misunderstanding hired hand. Parker Fennelly impersonates to perfection a cracked-voiced Yankee, and in view of the practice he has had as Titus Moody on the Fred Allen Show, there is little wonder. But because he is meant for comic relief, Holm should have given him more humorous lines, especially at the beginning...
Cartoonist Stamm, who once worked as assistant to Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), brought Stainless into his Scarlet O'Neil strip because he was tired of straight adventure comics, now makes $40,000 a year. In the dead-serious world of comic-strip nerves, Cartoonist Stamm has a simple reason for Stainless' popularity: "His saving grace is that he isn't deadly serious like most heroes. He's got a sense of humor...
Chortled TV Comic Jackie Gleason last week: "I feel like a guy who never went to church very often who's suddenly been made a cardinal." Gleason's new eminence came as a double helping: his hour-long Saturday night show on CBS was newly rated No. 1 on three major research systems, and he was hitched to one of the biggest TV contracts in history...
...obvious haymakers (The Caine Mutiny, The Egyptian, Sabrina, Country Girl) hit hard. A couple of Columbia's bread-and-butter farces (It Should Happen to You and Phffft!) made Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon a comic staple in the neighborhood theaters. In Knock on Wood, Danny Kaye renewed his lease on the adjective "incomparable," and with Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, the year's best thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock held his title as the world's foremost goose'esh-peddler...
...thunder of publicity for the big holiday releases, two pictures stood out as notable Hollywood productions-and neither was made in Hollywood. John Huston's Beat the Devil, written by Truman Capote and shot in Italy, was a magnificent leg-pull: a kind of dipsoid tirade of brilliant comic invention, played with a cross-eyed, morning-after charm by a fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama sometimes got out of emotional focus...