Word: gagman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attendent pratfalls, squashed toppers, and skinned knees, "Bringing Up Baby" lacks the necessary speed of action and the vital, high caliber gags to carry it over the inevitable slow spots. It bogs and badly after starting off at a tremendous clip. The middle reels, where any normally intelligent gagman would be clearing the decks for a final smashing boffola, are gummed up by a miserably dull jail routine that talks the audience straight into dreamland. And they sleep right on through to the bitter end. Cary Grant stars opposite Hepburn and is charming and funny as always. Katherine Hepburn...
Dependable Fooling. No gagman, the colonel still depends almost entirely on addleheaded whimsy, served with a heavy hand, an air of benign bewilderment, and some tried-&-true Stoopnagliana...
Godfrey's reason: if he can hold his own with Gagman Hope, he will be made in night-time radio, can quit getting up with the birds...
...artists who are also good idea men-or who have a clever gagman or two feeding them ideas-the business is good for $12,000 to $18,000 a year, including reprint profits and advertising jobs...
...good gagmen are rare and once an artist gets his hands on one he keeps him captive if he can. Cartoonist Jeff Keate, however, shares Gagman Arnot Shepperd Jr. of St. Louis with several friends. Gagman Richard McCallister of Newtown, Conn. has been a dependable source of gags for Helen Hokinson, Robert Day, Barbara Sherman and George Price. The gagman's usual cut: 25% of the artist...