Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their roles convincingly while seeming to sing like birds. But the part of a dying consumptive is played incongruously by hefty Ann Avars (who uses her own voice), and Britain's glamorous Pamela (The Lady's Not for Burning) Brown is made to look like a shorn Harpo Marx so that she can play Hoffmann's male companion. Even the performers who appear to advantage represent a disturbing clash of acting styles, e.g., Singer-Actor Rounseville plays for movie naturalism, while Actors Robert Helpmann and Leonide Massine, who are ballet dancers with little dancing...
Coincidences. Gangsters paraded to the witness stand, but they were about as garrulous as Harpo Marx. Politicians gossiped about each other like a roomful of society cats, but gave no sharp picture of corruption...
...public. Millions feel that he can do no wrong. He has not only been clutched to the bosom of the masses but has been nominated as a genius by fragments of the intelligentsia. Britain's Princess Elizabeth is a "slobbering" Abner fan; so are Novelist John Steinbeck, Comedian Harpo Marx, Lawyer Morris Ernst and NSRB Boss W. Stuart Symington...
...most Marx movies, all that matters is enough nonsense to take the curse off such inevitable interruptions as Chico's piano solo, Harpo's turn at the harp, the romantic subplot and the musical production routines. As the author of Love Happy's basic story, Harpo has treated himself to some bright comic ideas and a wealth of sight gags, some of which seem to have improved with time...
...Harpo's fans, at least two sequences should be enough to make the barren patches endurable. In one, the zany mute tramp leads three villains in a chase across the mid-Manhattan skyline, capering in & out of huge electric advertising displays that are ingeniously rigged to help him elude pursuit. The other sequence makes him the prisoner of international jewel thieves headed by Ilona Massey, whose decolletage plunges low enough to give even Hollywood a touch of the bends...