Word: horseplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse that conies in a winner only when the jockey sings to it. Also figuring in the cast: a wealthy racehorse owner (Nina Foch) and an aspiring actress (Polly Bergen) with a one-horse stable, both of whom are pursuing a handsome trainer (Howard Keel). With its strained horseplay and plodding screenplay. Fast Company is strictly an also...
...added element of melodrama. Tension arises when the prisoners' sabotage and escape plots fail with crushing regularity, making it apparent that one amongst them is a German informer. Their efforts to discover the culprit (they had a better word for him) provide grim and gripping moments between the horseplay...
...voice has an easy smoothness, an unsophisticated warmth. As she bounces along in Botch-a-Me, she adopts the tone of an earthy Italian mama, but her smile sings through as she gets the kiss she asks for. In Too Old to Cut the Mustard, a bit of hillbilly horseplay, she changes pace completely and sings raucous country alto to Marlene Dietrich's improbable baritone...
...sequence that recalls one of Shakespeare's low-comedy passages, Perro and Saverio hire out as servants for the party. There follows a lively mixup-servant shenanigans, romantic horseplay, boudoir burlesque-dampened only by a final scene which ends in tragedy...
...page in the 1915 Howitzer, the U.S. Military Academy yearbook, in which Cadet Dwight David Eisenhower was called "the terrible Swedish-Jew, as big as life and twice as natural." This gag was explained long ago by Eisenhower and classmates as a piece of cumbersome West Point horseplay...