Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about. One night a week they take in a movie. The other evenings, while Fred works, Portland reads or knits in bed-an old vaudeville custom. They rarely entertain. Allen's best friends are "just plain people"-barbers, shoeshine boys, paper boys, waiters, delicatessen storekeepers. With them, says Comic Henry Morgan, he is "a reluctantly amiable guy." From them, he collects an authentic U.S. idiom...
...wasn't long before Fred started thinking: "What the hell's a juggler? A pair of hands. And you never get anywhere working with your hands." Since people insisted on laughing at him, why not be a comic and get somewhere-maybe even as high as the Keith circuit? Fred changed his billing to "Freddie James -The World's Worst Juggler," and headed for New York. The next year was a time of flea bags, dime dinners and very little work. After that, he traveled-and gained comic breadth. On a tour of Australia he developed...
...hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
Sighs a top comic: "I'd give my next year's option to get Garbo...
...Sheridan has pleasant vigor in the earlier, comic scenes. Kent Smith, battling against plot circumstance, simulates some believable confusion and sickness of heart. But both players put up a losing fight against the story's unreality...