Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herewith an up-to-date picture of Marion & husband Jack Douglas, an unreformed gag writer turned comic...
Combined Charities volunteer workers last fall came across a donation of $17 carmarked for the Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Having had experience with jokers, they labeled it just another gag and consigned it to the unallocated funds...
...patchwork comedy with some time-tested, surefire slapstick sequences involving lions on the loose. These scenes, dragged in by the heels and worked to the bone, help to bolster a film whose authors apparently never rejected any gag that popped into their heads...
...Small Dance," for instance, is a pointless story describing a young gentleman's adventures at a debutante ball. The characters, descriptions, and impressions are Lampoon stock in trade apparently passed down from generation to generation. "Atmofphere Pluf" is a gag story built around the use of the Old English "f" to replace "s" on the menn of a country restaurant; this is conceivably a suitable practice around which to build a witty story, but the writer merely thinks of all the words he knows that have "s" in them and substitutes the antiquated "f". If any attention...
...June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance routines strike an efficient, lusterless com promise between vaudeville of the Tony Pastor era and the kind now dispensed by television...