Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for Elsa's column Press Alliance thus far has acquired only syndicate small fry, notably a South American comic strip called G. Whiskers. But Press Alliance has started patiently to expand along the lines of its Blitzkrieged French predecessor. So far Winkler has sold U.S. publishers three books by Genevieve Tabouis, Pierre Lazareff, H.R. Knickerbocker...
Once established, this comic mood splits the plot wide open. Billy Ross (Walter Catlett), nightclub impresario, gets a birthday greeting from Miss Dunne, orders her to report for rehearsals. Another switch, and in a wonderfully nonsensical scene he hires her to be his lyrical phone girl...
Although Whistling is Comic Skelton's first starring performance, it is by no means his best. His masterpiece is on ice at M.G.M. Made a year or so ago as a screen test, it turned out so slaphappily (mainly because of its doughnut-dunking sequence) that down-in-the-mouth producers, directors and such at the studio are forever running it off when they need some laughs...
Under the competent guidance of Mrs. Edna Skelton the comic began to amount to something. She wrote routines, made him study with a tutor until he got a high-school diploma, worked his salary up to $300 a week. Daughter of an undertaker she had just completed a course in embalming prior to her marriage. Skelton has never forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have...
...Jordan is not a perfectly conceived fantasy. At times it sacrifices credulity and its own premises for the sake of the plot. But it is so filled with good things that all concerned can take a bow for fashioning one of the most singular and comic comedies ever to come out of Hollywood. It molds farce and fantasy into a story that is not only witty but wise. A directorial triumph for Alexander Hall, it is a springboard for two practically perfect performances by Actors Montgomery and Gleason...