Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this bit of nonsense Director Lloyd Bacon might have squeezed a few touches of light satire or screwball comedy. Instead he has played it cute and coy. The only really cute thing in the movie is Betty Lynn, who fits her role as snugly as she fits her sweater. The rest, including Rudy Vallee as another pince-nezed fuddy-duddy, is synthetic fluff, which ought to do well in the neighborhood houses by the time hot weather comes...
...Horace Greeley denounced the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
Aside from Misses Walker and Essen, the cast includes Jackie Gleason, Carol Bruce, Hank Ladd, and Johnny Coy, all of whom possess a variety of entertaining talents. "Along Fifth Avenue" is just one more of those uneven affairs; Nancy Walker is responsible for what smooth, bright spots there are, but the rest of its is not unpleasant...
...authors make the business of turning mouse into man a single-tracked exercise in tortured double meanings and thin, three-cornered situations. Truex can dig a coy toe into the carpet with the best of the professional Milquetoasts; he can be equally amusing as a self-fancied Don Juan who struts only to trip. But here he is the victim of a greater incongruity-a script that manages to make sex look pretty stale...
...them: Wayne Coy, former assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget, now chairman...