Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Came To Dinner" is the funniest movie to come out of Hollywood since Charlie Chaplin abandoned his cane for a social consciousness. It's also so different and original that it's quite apt to gain the rather dubious distinction of being the herald of a new cycle of film comedies...
...Yorker's stylists; this is a collection of ten of his pieces. To read them at one sitting is like using a scalp vibrator for two hours on end. Taken with rest periods between, they are funny, sharp, engaging slices of Manhattan life. The two funniest...
...just Fields trying to peddle a scenario to Esoteric Studios. He reads a scene, then plays it. Upshot: a maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the fact that Comedian Fields is one of the funniest men on earth. Whether he is offering a cure for insomnia ("Get plenty of sleep"), refusing a bromo ("couldn't stand the noise"), nasally vocalizing ("chickens have pretty legs in Kansas"), meticulously blowing the head off an ice cream soda, Fields is a beautifully timed exhibit of mock pomposity...
...befuddled Messenger 7013. Robert Montgomery, playing the dispossessed soul in the market for a body he can call his own, once more displays amazing versatility. Uproariously funny scenes are provided by the minor characters, especially blundering, vulture-visaged Edward Everett' Horton and James Gleason, who does one of the funniest pantomime jobs since Charlie Chaplin hung up the baggy pants and Hitler mustache. Claude Rains, as Mr. Jordan (the Angel Gabriel in a streamline edition) gives one of the subtlest characterizations of recent screen history...
...spots and inessential characters, but "Blithe Spirit" has neither. Every moment of the two and a half hours is superb, and the audience is helpless with laughter from the opening curtain to the end. "Blithe Spirit" may well be the most hilarious farce ever written; certainly it is the funniest our generation has ever seen...