Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generally, P.A.C. has not squandered its money and effort in places where it had little chance of success. But it did all it could, which was not enough, to oust Massachusetts' egregious Congressman James Michael Curley...
Once Upon a Time (Columbia) a little boy named Stinky found a caterpillar named Curley, a threadbare theatrical agent found them both, and things began to happen fast. Curley was not just a worm; he could do a turn. Whenever Stinky munched Yes, Sir, That's My Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE...
When scientists insisted that Curley was theirs to dissect. Curley's manager refused to part with him. Preachers and pundits made an issue of it-rugged individualism v. regimentation. Then one day Curley disappeared. His return was something of a miracle...
This screen reincarnation of Curley's story is not the best picture of 1944, but it is bland and sometimes amusing fantasy...
Stinky, on the screen, becomes Pinky (Ted Donaldson), a plump little boy who, for all his talents, looks too much like a child actor. Curley does all his workouts in a shoe box, and though dozens of his screen colleagues watch him constantly, the tantalized audience never gets a gander. The agent (Cary Grant) is no pathetic shoe-stringer. He is a dapper Broadway impresario in danger of losing his theater. When he loses it, Cary is solaced by meeting Pinky's lush sister (Janet Blair). His slit-pussed sidekick (James Gleason), is perhaps the best member...