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Merry Andrew (M-G-M). Danny Kaye is like Aladdin's lamp. Only when an audience rubs him the right way can the genie come out. No audience, no magic; and the cold glass eye of the camera is worse than no audience to an exquisite empathist like Kaye. But even in the worst of his pictures-and Merry Andrew is considerably better than that-Comedian Kaye exhibits the common trait of the greatest clowns, who are not funny because of what they do but because of what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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