Word: ezio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's critics refused to be pushed over. Wrote the Daily Express' John Barber: "My goodness ... I got a 42nd Street Madame Butterfly. I hoped for a new leading man to rival Ezio Pinza. I got Wilbur Evans. . . an old uncle with the fire gone out. . . Only a moderately enchanting evening. People will say I'm in love . . . with Oklahoma!" The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson thought the plot moved too slowly. Said he: "It seemed to be more like South Soporific." Yet the critics, despite their reservations, were quick to admit that South Pacific seemed...
...Imperium (M-G-M), Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza's first movie, was shelved until his second, Strictly Dishonorable, could introduce him to the screen (TIME, July 23). Now moviegoers can see why. The film shackles Pinza and Lana Turner to the story of an incognito King's fling with a nightclub cutie from the U.S.-a situation enfeebled by long service in Ruritanian farce and operetta. Basso Pinza sings three numbers predictably well; Actress Turner sings a couple predictably. But only the Technicolor looks good in Mr. Imperium...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Ezio Pinza and Milton Berle...
...Imperium (Ezio Pinza & Fran Warren; Victor, 2 sides LP). Miss Warren and songs (some of them pretty featherweight) are badly outclassed by Operatic Heavyweight Pinza...
Strictly Dishonorable (MGM) shows how persistent Hollywood can be. The picture is the second movie version of Preston Sturges' 1929 Broadway hit; it is also MGM's second attempt to capture Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza's middle-aged sex appeal on film...