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...Frank Sinatra Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS-TV), with the unenviable job of bucking the Milton Berle show, puts its major reliance on song. To the accompaniment of girlish squeals from the studio audience, Sinatra and his guests (Perry Como, Frankie Laine, the Andrews Sisters, Broderick Crawford) alternate their songs with rather painful comedy sketches. Though no longer in the best of voice, Sinatra keeps his 60-minute show moving, lends a hand with the commercials and engages each guest star in brief and occasionally entertaining badinage...
...movie's boy-meets-girl story is simple, lighthearted and peopled with thoroughly likable characters. An ex-G.I. painter (Gene Kelly), happily roughing it on the Left Bank, picks up a charming shopgirl (Leslie Caron). They fall in love. He holds off a pleasantly wolf-girlish American heiress (Nina Foch) who is determinedly sponsoring him. But the shopgirl feels a stronger commitment to the devoted music-hall idol (Georges Guetary) who sheltered her through a wartime childhood. As it must for all lovers, especially in Paris, love finds...
...four-month layoff, switched plans just before opening, when one of the two other girl dancers fell ill. Since no one else knew both parts, Moira stepped down to take it; Margot was called in to dance the lead. Said the critics next day: "Moira is taller, more girlish, a dainty princess. Fonteyn is peerless, a queen of precision." Said diplomatic Moira, "All things considered, it came off rather well...
...Barbara stands 5 ft. 3 in. tall, weighs a mere 113 Ibs., tosses her burnished, straw-colored hair in a girlish bob, and gazes at the world through clear hazel eyes. In a medium where pose and posture are the standards, she is almosl startlingly forthright. Painfully self-conscious under scrutiny, uninhibited among close friends, Barbara can cuss like a longshoreman and make it sound as offhand as a schoolgirl's "Jeepers." The effect of such artlessness on the stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies...
What poetry and picturesqueness Angel possesses stem from John E. Blankenchip's set and lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...