Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the best Porter tunes, in a strikingly natty showcase: Dolores Gray belted out I Get a Kick Out of You and Just One of Those Things. George Sanders suavely suggested that he was singing C'est Magnifique. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy provided the comic element, with some mild stabs of wit. Bing Crosby merely contributed a tune clipped from High Society (Now You Has Jazz), sung with Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, whose galvanic Blow, Gabriel, Blow undoubtedly jazzed up CBS's ratings. Best numbers: You Do Something to Me, ravishingly sung by Dorothy Dandridge...
...Although her magnificent comic performance has been blowtorched out of the film, there is enough left of the Hepburn footage to identify her for her sharpshooters...
Born Funny. More than any other TV comic, Hackett plays himself; he rarely gimmicks up an act or trades insults with his audience. In his first show, he seemed neither as bumptious as Jackie Gleason nor as carbolic as Steve Allen. His formula for success, if any, seems to be the unconscious ability to run into the ground the trivia of ordinary life...
Dogpatch, U.S.A. has jumped from the comic strips to the stage. Luckily Dogpatch loses little of its good-natured fun in the transition, even if the world of Li'l Abner becomes a bit more finite and less imaginative...
However, there are comic scenes, and Alexander Pirogov's Boris manages a few of these, though he is habitually massive-browed and troubled. ("Yet happiness eludes my sad, my tortured soul.") In one of the most delightful scenes, his minister, Prince Shuisky, guilefully played by N. Khanayev, reports that the pretender's forces are nearing Moscow. Catching the drift of the wind. Boris remarks that there is no pretender, the pretender Dmitri is the sovereign, "and Shuisky for perjury shall be quartered...