Word: fairyland
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...American in Paris" is a highly imaginative film. The camera wanders selectively through an illusory Paris, from the noisy streets of the Left Bank to the somber steps by the banks of the Seine. It captures the spirit of a Parisian fairyland, making it a fit background for the dream sequences which form the best part of the film. These sequences are a necessary mechanism in a film which must make use of the varied talents of Gene Kelly, George's Guitar, and Oscar Levant, and still keep the plot from being too contrived. At one point Levant dozes...
...hard to say which has had most to do with establishing this pre-eminence-the Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, with its statue-strewn fairyland for the hallowed loved ones, or Pierce Brothers Mortuaries, proud custodians of the West's biggest funeral business...
...Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's narrative is less bedizened with verbal gimcrackery, but it is still a bit too tricky for every taste. Nevertheless, there is no living author who moves about in fairyland with such wit and easy familiarity. As for inner meanings, please yourself...
...with falling in love with her callous employer, the girl has a miserable evening. But if she is wretched from being poor and in love and not in society, so are most of those who are rich and in society and not really in love, who go yawning through fairyland, yearning for adventure, or poverty, or the past...
Cinderella (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is beguiling proof that Walt Disney still knows his way around fairyland. Harking back to the style of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), a small army of Disney craftsmen has given the centuries-old Cinderella story* a dewy radiance and comic verve that should make children feel like elves and adults feel like children...