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...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
...Laugh, O'Hara...
...Laugh, O'Hara...
...writer dolls are very talented. Wind up the Carl Sandburg doll, and it winds up the Abe Lincoln doll. The Lincoln doll walks 16 miles and comes back with a pretty penny for the Bruce Catton doll. Wind up the John O'Hara doll and it goes to Princeton. You wind up the Graham Greene doll and it confesses...
Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg had never reported on Hollywood mores. With an air of almost embarrassing innocence, O'Hara introduces the cigar-chomping Hollywood producer who speaks in broken English, the star whose bed is in the public domain. His hero Hubie is something less than an ersatz, goyische Sammy Click...