Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Heathcoat Amory, juggling the controls to open up the economy last week gave British banks power to grant more credit without Treasury approval...
There is nothing heavy about Bob Preston's Music Man. Feathery-footed, nimble-fingered, he is brassy, sassy and seemingly inexhaustible. Setting his style in his first big scene, he pounces on River City, peopled by folk straight out of Grant Wood's famed painting, American Gothic (one farm couple, in fact, gives a hilarious imitation, pitchfork and all, of the pair in the painting). River Cityans are high-minded, self-righteous...
...stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead of a couple of merely famous names-Mary Martin and Charles Boyer-on his marquee, he had two of the biggest that have ever been in the business-Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant...
...loaded with money-who lives all alone, next door to Buckingham Palace, in an apartment the size of an armory, with nothing but a couple of dozen Picassos and Rouaults and Dufys to keep her company, and a devoted Rolls-Royce to follow her whenever she takes a walk. Grant plays a wizard of international finance -world-renowned, spectacularly attractive, loaded with money-who falls in love with the girl, and expresses his affection in those little things that women appreciate so much: yachts, paintings, diamond bracelets...
...high old style of hilarity that U.S. moviemakers seem to have forgotten in recent years. Director Donen deserves a cash-register-ringing cheer. Actress Bergman, always lovely to look at, is thoroughly competent in the first comedy role that she has played for Hollywood. And Gary Grant is in a class by himself when it comes to giving a girl a yacht...