Word: heigh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared with the heigh-ho, collegiate approach of Vallee, today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
...wearing a mask and leaning on a couple of canes. "How do you do?" says Gielgud to her. "How do I do what?" she says. That bit of dialogue was exchanged between Snow White and Grumpy in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ah, so, heigh-ho. Gielgud is Snow White, and sensual Alice is Grumpy. But isn't she really the Virgin Mary? Doesn't she wear the Madonna's blue and hold him in the precise attitude of the Pieta as he dies? So he must be Grumpy then, and Grumpy...
...star to her place in Connecticut, and discovers six dwarfs and a dog living in a greenhouse at the bottom of the garden. Their names are Leo, Sherman, Dulcie, Amy, Brenda, Sonny and Butch. Leo is the grumpy one, and Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming, in the guise of a freewheeling young minister (Cliff Robertson), sets everything in order, including problems of ear washing, adoption and matrimony...