Word: gwen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Redhead. A faltering musical whodunit kept on the spin through the matchless body English of Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon...
...Redhead. Gwen Verdon, the Tenth Muse of Broadway, stops, starts and saves this musical mystery show set in a turn-of-the-century London waxworks...
...Redhead. Gwen Verdon, the Tenth Muse of Broadway, stops, starts, and saves this musical mystery show set in a turn-of-the-century London waxworks...
...turn-of-the-century London waxworks, Redhead casts Gwen as Essie Whimple, a mouse-humble cockney-accented taxidermist of crime sensations. When the wax cools on her tableau of a purple-scarf murder before the clues do, and the strangler begins stalking her, poor Essie hides out as a showgirl with a neighboring theatrical troupe. For Essie, a spinster of 29, whose lips have never touched liquor, cigarettes or men, the greatest thrill is to be close to the show's American strong man (Richard Kiley). The problem: who will get whose man first-Scotland Yard or Essie Whimple...
...delight cross the wistful, wide-eyed Verdon face, like sudden dawns. Eager to please, she seems perpetually astonished at her power to give pleasure, as if the double-take she often uses were her own second nature. More fun to be with than any musicomedienne since Gertrude Lawrence, Gwen Verdon gives a theatergoer the rare sensation that his ticket has been underpriced...