Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many generations Ichiro Ishikawa's ancestors had lived in Ueno, a remote, semifeudal village in Shizuoka prefecture. Ueno's rich, black volcanic soil yielded rice, corn, sweet potatoes and garden vegetables. There were nightingales, cuckoos, profusely blooming wild chrysanthemums; and, in summer, gorgeous swarms of red dragonflies. Life in Ueno was good...
Tasaki gets the old and new Japans squared off against each other by rigging up two brother & sister teams of near-vaudeville quality. Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before...
True, the musical boasts five gorgeous show girls dressed as martinis and a graceful dance ensemble well-trained by Agnes deMille. But the songs, with the exception of those saturated with Miss Channing's personality and 'Bye, 'Bye Baby, are the kind whistled during intermission, then forgotten. Furthermore, Oliver Smith's set designs add no bounce whatsoever to the lavish production numbers. Some are flat and sloppy, while others present the eye with blotches of unrelated color. I won't argue that 1924 buildings didn't look like the ones in Mr. Smith's sets, but I doubt whether trees...
Archangel Michael bounded forward, gorgeous in a white-and-pink silk costume, and challenged Lucifer in the name of God and the seven virtues...
Hollywood, spurred by its success in luring moviegoers away from their TV sets, considered a new idea: take any old film story that has proved its box-office pull and i) reproduce it in gorgeous Technicolor, 2) throw in some songs and dances, and 3) make it look lavish, regardless of budget. Old favorites slated for the music and color treatment: Huckleberry Finn and Goodbye, Mr. Chips at MGM; Brother Rat and The Male Animal at Warner, What Price Glory? at 20th Century...