Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, Hollywood's Gregory Peck, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, and the theater's redoubtable Tallulah Bankhead. At week's end, one of the 200 faces had been changed. The features of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary had been replaced by those of Radio Comic Fred Allen...
Filmed on German locations, Male War Bride uses well-photographed landscapes as backdrops for its pratfalls and manages somehow to turn occupied Germany into a comic-opera set, peopled by quaint peasants and toy soldiers. With no dialogue worthy of deft Comedian Grant, it makes its major bid for comedy by turning him into a female impersonator...
...Desert (Universal-International) indicates that the warriors of Israel, in their crusade against the Arabs and the British, may be the heroes of a new rash of fictional melodramas. In this slow stalking of the Palestine situation, the British are pictured as fatuous sports, the Arabs as a colorfully comic tribe of three-occasionally seen in the background taking a hefty spit at a Jewish armored truck-and the Jews as total heroes. The worldwide political snafu that preceded Israel's rebirth is boiled down to the smuggling of Jewish D.P.s through British patrols, a one-sided desert scramble...
...dispense this capsule advice, Producer Irving Mansfield (Talent Scouts') engaged Critic Clifton Fadiman as moderator, and Comic Abe Burrows and Playwright-Director George S. Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You) for permanent panel members. Right from the start it became embarrassingly clear that the problems of most entertainers could be solved more readily with a grain of aspirin than with a pound of prosy counsel. On the opening show, Bandleader Artie Shaw departed from his script to remark: "My problem is that I haven't any problem...
...Abner. A newcomer to the air, this program, based on Al Capp's comic strip, typifies the casting problems faced by TV directors who, in this case, must search for reasonably accurate facsimiles of Dogpatch denizens. The show would be easy to cast for radio. For television, more than 4,544 actors have been interviewed for the title role and for Daisy Mae, but no one has been definitely decided...