Word: fades
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...quartet are pictured with realism and honesty. But an honest solution to all their complex problems would certainly have endangered the film's entertainment possibilities. Producer Dore Schary took no such risk. After a bang-up barroom brawl and an exchange of neat, safe platitudes, everything at the fade-out is suddenly just dandy for everybody...
...earlier Marx Brothers triumphs, Rumann is not content to remain a foil, and Groucho must contend with him as both a Nazi and a gag-stealer. Harpo, with a new wig and a slightly more fashionable, belt-trailing polo-coat, does his soulful best, but too often must fade out for the sake of the plot. The "situation" routines, a part of the permanent repertoire of the Marx Brothers, were few. Groucho's gags, when he grabbed the opportunity to pull one, were in character. When asked by a seductive Parisienne: "Won't you join me?" he answers...
...helped by you, taught by you, brought up by you, we leave you to hordes of the eager but frightened, the phone-answering, non-smoking, hatless. But in our relation with you, Inchball, we have formed associations with one another that may appear to fade, but will ever revive under your influence. And these associations have been, perhaps, the most worthwhile pages of your textbook...
Soldiers and veterans are beginning to speculate on whether such opinions as voiced by this ex-holder of a noncombat commission will become the accepted version when memories fade...
...actors. Here we find nothing but amateurs. . . . Metamorphosis, the very essence of histrionic art, is utterly foreign to these actors. [They] do not realize that they are leading the brilliant but short lives of dazzling butterflies. . . . The few really great actors remaining in Hollywood-a Chaplin or a Garbo-fade ever further into the background...