Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie is, in effect, a series of gag situation. While this may be all right for the Marx Brothers, who work on the saturation principle, it is not all right here where the material is so thin...
...Marx often uses the double play on words-no matter how obvious it is-to make his misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make a gag go: once he pretended to think a woman described herself as a "monster" instead of a "spinster" ("Oh well," he said, winding up the whole discussion, "there isn't a great deal of difference...
...Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap gag...
...which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only half their capacity. Last week, Rank and his subsidiaries had just four productions before the cameras, compared with ten a year ago. An actor at liberty summed it up with an old Hollywood gag: "Out at the Rank studios it's so quiet you can hear an option drop...
Also present for their first movie appearance: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, a funny song & gag team from radio and the nightclubs...