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...their witty musical accompaniment by her young friend Walton, into the mouth of a mask painted on the curtain hiding her from view. Public and critics alike pronounced the evening an outrage. But the musical "entertainment" has been revived again and again, currently in this recording by Actress Hermione Gingold and Countertenor Russell Oberlin, with Thomas Dunn conducting the small chamber ensemble. Unfortunately for them, Dame Edith herself, with Peter Pears, has performed the work for London Records. Where Gingold dramatizes the poems, Sitwell chants her surrealistic lines like a hypnotist, sometimes at breakneck speed. "We sought to reach...
...RATHER BE RICH. Another of those mix-ups about a wayward heiress proves, surprisingly enough, continually lively and often hilarious as played by Sandra Dee, with Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Andy Williams and Robert Goulet...
...RATHER BE RICH. Surprisingly enough, another of those mix-ups about a wayward heiress proves continually lively and often hilarious as played by Sandra Dee, with Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Andy Williams and Robert Goulet...
...RATHER BE RICH. In one of the season's liveliest comedy sleepers, Sandra Dee gets hilarious support from two wide-awake oldtimers, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, and a pair of newcomers, Robert Goulet and Andy Williams...
Chevalier is sly and charming as the invalid invalid. Gingold is pure gold as his nutty nurse, a suspicious spinster who sleeps with a large sheepdog in her bed and keeps giving her patient ambiguous invitations-"If you want a pill," she murmurs, "call me." Fast company, that, but Goulet somehow contrives to stay with the pace. And Williams, a young singer who looks like Bing Crosby and sounds like several other people, carries off the wackiest sequences in the picture...