Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oyly Carte, now at the shubert, is performing "The Mikado" with all the polish and humor that the operetta needs. Martyn Green, who is one of the funniest men around in any company, climbs up the scenery and mugs furiously, but he hardly ever steps outside his role in the play, that of the Lord High Executioner. Darrell Fancourt, as the humane Mikado of the story, leers competently at his unfortunate subjects and utters the most grotesque chuckles that have been heard in Boston since he was last here nine years ago. The romantic leads are taken by Thomas Round...
Communist reaction was significant. In Prague, the speech was suppressed. In Moscow, the press gave it 18 lines on the day after its delivery. At Lake Success, Andrei Gromyko unwittingly made the funniest comment of an intensely serious week. The speech, he said, was "propaganda for internal American consumption...
...painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused farmer, "looks just like a dried up crab apple under my tree back home." Said another: "The funniest thing I ever...
...Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a Technicolored distention of James Thurber's short story about a daydreaming timid-soul, is Danny Kaye's funniest movie. Henpecked half out of his senses by his mother (Fay Bainter) and threatened with worse by a sinister fiancee (Ann Rutherford) and prospective mother-in-law (Florence Bates), the celluloid Mitty (Kaye) deserves a Secret Life if ever a man did. He has several, all derived from the ferocious pulps he is paid to proofread...
...order of its excellence would be a difficult task: nonetheless, the fact stands clear that Miss Claire Gilman, as a visitor from Dublin, is the prettiest actress to be seen recently in these parts, while John Mannick, as the leading man of the repertory company, is one of the funniest, although he is made up to resemble a slightly pasty Peter Lorre...