Word: daftness
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...grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic checks in disappearing...
...Proctor (Scott McKay) is daft in love with his neurotic, flutter-hearted patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs...
Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written dialogue that is hurdly above average and often decidedly trite, but they redeem themselves in the delightfully daft lyrics of the hit number, "I Get Carried Away...
...home near Hollywood last week, the gentlest, most poetic of U.S. popular artists laid down his pen at last. George Herriman, 63, creator of the sovereign comic strip, Krazy Kat, died after a long illness. Hundreds of thousands of readers, who knew the love-daft Kat and his curious companions as well as they knew their own dreams, knew little or nothing of their inventor. But as friends and colleagues talked of this modest little man, as he never on earth would have talked of himself, a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness emerged. "If ever there was a saint...
Jimmy's personally written songs (he has copyrighted dozens) were at once a vigorous ribbing of Tin Pan Alley and a ragtime celebration of places and moods of significance to the daft composer. The titles included: I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man; Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away, Out in Far Rockaway? and Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Go, Still You Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Stay? I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway (Can Broadway Do Without...