Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commander of the band of destroyers was 25-year-old Major Frank Gleason, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Shy, redheaded Major Gleason and his men arrived in Kweilin last summer to teach demolition techniques to the Chinese. When the Japs began their autumn offensive, he and his men stopped teaching and began destroying...
...Donaldson as Stinky, Cary Grant as Flynn, and Jimmy Gleason as the producer's right hand man, are all excellent. And it's different; it's Corwin...
...tantalized audience never gets a gander. The agent (Cary Grant) is no pathetic shoe-stringer. He is a dapper Broadway impresario in danger of losing his theater. When he loses it, Cary is solaced by meeting Pinky's lush sister (Janet Blair). His slit-pussed sidekick (James Gleason), is perhaps the best member of the cast...
...Switzerland, Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie Gleason, pert Dancer Dorothy Keller, graceful Ballerina Irina Baronova. Its dancing has zest and spin. Its girls are good-looking, its sets handsome, its costumes stylish...
...Jackie Gleason is a very funny man as evidenced by his successful appearances before tough night-club audiences in Boston and New York. In "Follow the Girls," however, he is given such pathetic material that he is reduced to absurd gesturing a la Milton Berle. The same applies to Buster West and Tim Herbert, with the former faring a little better because of a superior stage presence that serves him well when the proceedings become absolutely moronic...