Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time Out for Ginger (by Ronald Alexander) has a pretty familiar setup: a middle-class household of mother, father, outspoken servant and three teen-age girls. The fillip is that the youngest junior miss behaves like a junior mister and goes out for the high-school football team. Father, between having always wanted a son and having recently declaimed in public that the young should be free to do what they want, first sportingly and then stubbornly backs Ginger up. Soon the whole town's talking; next father's job at the bank is endangered. Fortunately Ginger, once...
...town makes a great deal too much of Ginger's behavior, and so does the author. In fact, a girl football player has far more shock than story value, while even as a comic crusade, father's belief in freedom of the running play seems a far cry from freedom of speech...
...hard-working plot of Time Out for Ginger is both a little too silly and a little too jumbled, and the teen-age daughters not only are comic-strip themselves, but are raucously wooed by comic striplings. Yet a good deal of Time Out is thoroughly amiable, and a fair amount of the show is amusing...
Monkey Business (20th Century-Fox) works overtime at a far-fetched plot about a laboratory chimpanzee who accidentally mixes an elixir of youth. When Research Chemist Gary Grant and his wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...
Ponderously written by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I.A.L. Diamond, and noisily directed by Howard Hawks, Monkey Business has some amusing monkeyshines. But the picture's simple-minded running gag wears thin long before the elixir of youth wears out for Gary and Ginger. Also prominently on hand: Marilyn Monroe as a pneumatic private secretary to whom Boss Coburn hands a sheaf of copy with the instruction: "Find someone to type this...