Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offscreen as on, the face looks a little too beautiful to be true, like the kind of adolescent daydream served up in the comic strips. The cut of the face is Betty Boop, but the coloring and expression are Daisy Mae. The eyes are large and grey, and lend the features a look of baby-doll innocence. The innocence is in the voice, too, which is high and excited, like a little girl...
...many Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Green has demonstrated in the past that he is one of the finest, if not the finest, of the singing comedians working today. But Shangri-La, for the most part a determinedly serious show, gives him no chance at all to display his comic talents. The only real honors go to Susan Cabot, as the missionary. A talented comedienne with a large voice, she does remarkably much with her shoddy material...
...intended price gets a polished treatment from Guinness, although the part wastes his comic talents. He manages to carry off the royal role with a smooth blend of awkwardness and calm courtship...
...Broadway production is enormously the richer for Comic Bert Lahr's brilliant playing of the more confused of the two tramps. He endows the role with a clown's wistful bewilderment, evocative capers and broad but beautifully precise touches of comedy. Far more than Beckett, Lahr suggests all dislocated humanity in one broken-down man. Others in the cast, however competent, seem a little too studied grotesque or Middle European in style. None the less, Godot has its own persistent fascination. For once in a way, at least, in a theater rife with pointless hurry-scurry, they distinctly...
...first motion picture, the French comic brings all his talents into play as the bicycle-borne letter carrier of a small village. The picture is a one-man show, made up of a series of episodes held together by little more than its comedian's abilities. He uses almost no dialogue for his effects, but in such scenes as an epic battle with tottering flag pole, and a drunken wrestling match between the postman and his bicycle, no words are necessary...