Word: gower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greener Pastures. In Dallas, "looking for excitement," Manager Charles Gower left his movie theater, joined a friend on the police force and sped to the scene of a reported disturbance, returned to find that two armed men had held up his cashier, escaped with...
Everything I Have Is Yours (MGM) is a words-and-music movie in which the music bogs down in the words. The tedious script has to do with the on-again, off-again romance of a husband & wife musicomedy team (Marge and Gower Champion). When Marge retires to have a baby, she is replaced by sultry Understudy Monica Lewis. Jealous Marge has to take her troubles to a divorce lawyer before the couple is finally, laboriously reunited...
Unfortunately, the screenplay is not quite so chic. Red Skelton inherits a half interest in a Paris dress salon and stages a musical fashion show on the premises. Howard Keel sings and has romantic designs on Designer Kathryn Grayson; Ann Miller and Marge and Gower Champion do some fast stepping, and blonde Zsa Zsa Gabor just flounces around. When it is dressed up with songs and smart styles, Lovely to Look At has a champagne sparkle. At other times, it is as flat as dead soda...
Negro Baritone William Warfield helps things along for a while with a surefire performance of Ol' Man River. And at welcome intervals during its uneven course between timeless songs and dated story, Show Boat brings on the dancing of Broadway's Marge and Gower Champion, whose bounce and grace (notably in Life Upon the Wicked Stage) give the production its smoothest sailing...