Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor role, Mason does little more than sip champagne, dilate his nostrils and murmur, with a leer: "Not quite cool enough but beautifully alive!" At that, he easily takes the romantic play away from the deadpan leading man, Stewart Granger. Phyllis Calvert, as a cabinet member's illegitimate child who eventually achieves her rightful station, displays a fine-boned beauty and something beyond the call of duty in a British cinemactress: a good set of teeth. A merciful Atlantic washed away the picture's only other attraction: the original title, Fanny by Gaslight...
...angular grace and deadpan beauty have made her for seven years one of Harry Conover's top ($25-an-hour) models. But after a chorus of critical raves for her Liz, she said: "I just want parts and more parts...
Black Bart (Universal-International). Yvonne de Carlo (in glowing Technicolor) as Lola Montez; Dan Duryea and Jeffrey Lynn as rival swains and bandits. There is little illusion of quality about this western, and too little of the deadpan kidding that has made some other De Carlo pictures a pleasure...
...best die-away officialese, Cripps had explained what might happen next: "If it becomes necessary to cut our dollar imports further, we shall be almost bound to have to cut raw materials. That will undoubtedly cause inconvenience." This characteristically deadpan remark was British understatement with a vengeance. One of the many things Cripps did not say-though implicit in what he said-is that one ultimate method of closing a trade gap is starving to death...
...policy has remained pretty constant, "the more custard pies per reel the better." There have been deviations into more sophisticated comedy of the "Topper" type, "but," says the Boston advertising manager, "the kids didn't get the hang of the double entendre," And so, since the giants of the deadpan and the thrown pie are no more, the theater sticks to the oldies. "There are very few good new ones," the Laffmovie's spokesman says sorrowfully, and the Marx and Ritz Bros., Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin are therefore shown devotedly. While the children have no trouble understanding these artists...