Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Honeymoon (Universal-International) devotes itself strenuously to the leering old gag of setting up an obstacle course between the nuptial bed and a pair of ardent newly weds (Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray). Among the obstacles: the Other Woman (Rita Johnson), the rigors of a tour through the Grand Canyon, the constant company of the bride's three small children by a former marriage...
Despite a few mild laughs, the gag stretches thin during the 90 minutes it takes to get the harried honeymooners to bed. Whatever novelty the script suggests in turning a wedding trip into a family excursion is lost in the exhausted atmosphere of marital misunderstanding and reconciliation...
...would bring him into the presidency in his own right. He worked on his inaugural address, admired his wife's and daughter's new clothes (a black-and-grey silk for Bess Truman, red gabardine for Margaret), answered his own invitation to the ceremonies with a little gag: "Weather permitting, I hope to be present...
...When the gag was over, Perry Como rushed into Studio Two, where an all-string orchestra awaited him. A few moments later they were lurching through the Missouri Waltz, a Truman inauguration special which was Victor's first commercial disc...
This enterprise, they promised, would circumvent the "obscenity gag rule" of Smoker posters, which has been invoked by the Dean's Office this year in response to both Decency and Apathy League protests last year...