Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy WTilder not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TiME, Sept...
...Journal's morning tabloid sister, the Mirror, was started in 1924 with the slogan: "90% entertainment, 10% news"; it still lives up to this. The biggest attraction is Columnist Walter Winchell, plus Drew Pearson and popular comic strips (Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka, Steve Canyon...
Drama, Comedy. In his first straight dramatic role, TV Comic Jackie Gleason gave a taut and convincing portrait of an unscrupulous politician on Studio One, in a play by Carey Wilbur called Short Cut. Gleason not only looked the part, with his suety face and alderman's stomach, but for most of the play he put aside the comic's tools of obviousness and loudness in order to make his character dramatic and believable...
...advance that it might be a bad idea to revive the 15-year-old Philadelphia Story for TV. But on CBS's Best of Broadway, Actress McGuire made an excellent Tracy Lord, tawny and yare, as the script said she should be. To help her through the comic but caustic dilemma of casting off a new fiance (Dick Foran) and remarrying the one and only (John Payne), she had an engaging cast...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...