Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaye, who is mimic, comic, dancer and singer, seems to have too many talents to play just one part per movie (other films in which he had multiple identities: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man). In Riviera, he is a delight in all his roles. As the French ladykiller, he plays straight with just the right elegant swagger. As the American, he clowns and clogs through impersonations of Maurice Chevalier, Carmen Miranda, a kilted Scot, a puppet, a Spanish dancer and, of course, the fashionable Frenchman...
...audience, the low comedy scenes are far and away the most successful phase of the current production. In this play they are more than a mere concession to the groundlings; they are the height of Shakespeare's achievement in slapstick comedy. There is much room left for comic interpretation, and the H. D. C. makes the most of its freedom. At least the Pit at Fogg Court thought...
...Cosl last week, Scherman's singers were not quite first-rate, although they sang their English (in a new, bright translation by George and Phyllis Mead) so that every word of the comic story could be understood. Hopping and flapping on the podium, Conductor Scherman whipped up enough enthusiasm among his performers to more than compensate for minor defects in tempo and style...
Fustilarian was the word used by Falstaff to describe Hostess Quickly. It is "a comic formation based on fustilugs, and fustiluggery itself refers to fat and frowsiness, usually feminine. Fustilug [and] fus-tilarian certainly merit rediscovery . . . for application to a gross virago...
...picture's comic coloring of its familiar incidents sometimes comes close to falsifying them. But a skillful script, Vincente Minelli's brisk direction and another topnotch Tracy performance keep the humanity and the fun intact. Admirers of Father of the Bride will not be let down; all they have to fear now is that M-G-M will be tempted to go on working its father lode until the ore thins...