Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With its entertainers stretched from one end of Cinemascope to the other, There's No Business Like Show Business bristles with fast-paced song and dance routines that drag only when the projectors grind Marilyn Monroe across the screen. She is usually followed by a drunken Donald O'Connor, intent on being a nimble bad boy who dances with statues after Marilyn tires of the whole business...
...mixture is a pleasing serum of Irving Berlin's tunes and a splashing does of technicolor. Ethel Merman is the film's biggest asset, launching into her songs with a driving enthusiasm that shames Dan Dailey, who is busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn. For all her eye and hip rolling, Monroe is unable to project effectively as she did in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She mouthes through several enticers...
Texaco Star Theater (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Donald O'Connor sings Christmas carols...
MORE STORIES, by Frank O'Connor. Stories of ordinary Irish people done with unobtrusive skill by one of the best short-story writers alive...
...once almost essential to the seasoning of a real-life jazzman, Dave spent his youth playing nursemaid to heifers and earned his first money ($1 a Sunday) playing hymns in a school. Characteristically, Dave has several priests among his friends, including Boston's Father Norman O'Connor, who used to play the piano in a dance band himself...