Word: horseplay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall the Conquering Hero" packs a punch. The theme of the picture is patriotism. Against this, Sturges plays love, plain and simple. The conflict of these forces within the protagonist, Eddie Bracken, generously spiced with ridiculous situations and hilarious horseplay, forms the basis of the plot...
Children's horseplay has been missing from the White House ever since Johnny's half sister and half brother (Sistie & Buzzie) went away. Sistie, now a handsome and dignified 17, is a junior at a San Francisco girls' school; Buzzie, 14, will enter high school in Seattle in the fall...
...possible. He wants to do war work and nothing else, preferably overseas. He has on hand a piece of music and narration by Aaron Copland, called Lincoln Portrait, which he would like to do for soldiers in contrast to the always welcome-but never varied-song, dance and horseplay. "Get a little serious with them," he says, "and I think they'll like...
...Cooper in his early days, to create a sort of Rocky Mountain Jean Gabin. Jean Arthur, who has the brunt of the comedy to handle, is one of the most attractive handlers in the business, but undermines some of her funniest work by a growing tendency to put the horseplay before the part...
Bell's principal had pledged her not to cooperate in any publicity. Photographers and funsters had other ideas. The blonde, 5-ft.-7-in. coach was besieged by photographers loaded down with helmets, shoulder pads, other props, begging her to pose for horseplay photos. The only picture they got was a conservative Pauline in sweater and pearls. They tackled her with such obvious questions as: How does a petticoat coach throw a body block? Coach Pauline disarmingly straight-armed them: an assistant (male) will demonstrate all body contact plays...