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Bells Are Ringing. A so-so book and middling music do not keep Judy Holliday from turning this $3,000,000 Hollywood rerun of her 1956 Broadway hit into one of the year's liveliest, wittiest cinemusicals...
Bells Are Ringing. A so-so book and middling music do not keep Judy Holliday from turning this $3,000,000 Hollywood rerun of her 1956 Broadway hit into one of the year's liveliest, wittiest cinemusicals...
Bells Are Ringing (Arthur Freed; M-G-M). In this $3,000,000 Metrocolored musical based on her Broadway boff of 1956, Judy Holliday employs her limited vocal resources with showmanly style, supports them with a comic gift that is a major wonder of the entertainment world, and with some skillful assistance from Director Vincente (Gigi) Minnelli manages to jog and jazz and jigger a merely middling book and some fairly forgettable tunes into one of the year's liveliest and wittiest cinemusicals...
...listens to the troubles (and the tunes) of a desperate dentist who aspires to be a songwriter and composes ("I love your sunny teeth") on his air hose. But she bestows her most tender loving care on "Plaza oh double four double three (Dean Martin), a playboy playwright. Operator Holliday eventually makes a person-to-person connection, and after several sorts of trouble with the vice squad (the detectives want to know what sort of calls Susanswerphone answers), manages to deliver the message ("I love you") and get a return ring...
...beauty of Judy Holliday's talent lies not least in her meticulous control of it. She knows her type to a tee-hee, and she is never for an instant out of character. Actually, she plays two characters at once: 1) Dumb Dora, the sort of sweet schlemiel who continually falls on her face but always comes up covered with roses, and 2) Dora's diabolical double, a cute cookie who secretly prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that...