Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms sings it. Admirers of Lena Home will get a lithe eyeful during a dance which combines conga and boogie-woogie mannerisms. One comic line that approaches universality, as George Murphy sorely delivers it: "I may not always be right but I'm never wrong...
...windshield wiper for eyeglasses (originally introduced by Comic Ed Wynn, in The Perfect Fool...
Charlton turned his typewriter against British entertainers who visited troops for only three weeks at a time. His special target was Britain's middle-aged comic music-hall darling, Grade Fields. White hall's brass hats rushed to defend her, demanded that the News be suppressed, declared that Winston Churchill "felt it unfair" that Gracie "should have been singled out." Monty was told that "certain other articles have not met with his [Churchill's] approval...
...melocomic fracas, in which Red Skelton clowns around in House-of-David-style false whiskers in order to warn a police inspector that the trusted friend sitting next him at a ball game is a homicidal maniac. The story is strenuously pasted together for laughs, but some of its comic assault & battery hits the funnybone, while Red Skelton, his idiotic beard and imbecilic lack of interest in the game he is supposed to pitch, sometimes conflict humorously with the maniacal seriousness of Ebbets Field baseball...
There is also a prolonged slapstick struggle with murderers aboard an old ship. And at one nightmarish juncture M.G.M.'s scripters manage to hang Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ann Rutherford and Jean Rogers, in a gently swinging human chain, from the top of an elevator shaft. High comic moment: Red Skelton, as anchor-man for this gibbering pendulum, decides to rest his hands by letting go and standing on the shoulders of Rags Ragland, who is desperately clinging to Skelton's ankles...