Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This Can't Be Love, Sing for Your Supper...
Such criticism is worthless, and a musical should be judged not with vague phrases of pseudo-theatrical appreciation but from the point of view of entertainment alone. In entertainment Mr. Wiman has scored again; like "I Married an Angel," "Great Lady" has the gay, colorful, humorous touch that springs only from the talent of a master in the art of musical production...
Adapted from I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose...
...addition, through the gay pattern of his waltzes, sung or played with an effectiveness rarely surpassed on a cinema sound track, The Great Waltz lightly weaves a fragmentary legend of the composer's life. The result is an operetta in which, for once, story and score become part of the same picture-the familiar tapestry, this time brighter and more improbable than ever, of life and young love in old Vienna...
...Boys from Syracuse" is a gay and tuneful production, and though the plot, as in Plautus' time, is somewhat innocuous, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have poured so much of the soul of modern melody into the show that their position as the foremost song writing team of musical comedy cannot be questioned; "Falling in Love," "Shortest Day in the Year," and especially "This Can't Be Love" are three of the best tunes to have appeared in many months, and the cast renders them to perfection...