Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solid Gold Cadillac" isn't quite the vehicle Josephine Hull deserves. But it gets her back on the stage and that's quite good enough. George S. Kaufman and Howard Telchmann must take the blame for a script that bows too often to farce and bypasses satire...
...Solid Gold Cadillac (by Howard Teichmann & George S. Kaufman) is at best goldplated, but that still leaves it considerably brighter than most current Broadway comedies. Furthermore, it proves a perfect vehicle for Josephine Hull, who exhibits her best You Can't Take It With You and Arsenic and Old Lace manner...
...authors have written what they call a fairy tale-a good enough term for what it would be hard to call a play. In it, Miss Hull is an exactress who is also a tiny stockholder in a vast corporation. She attends a public stockholders' meeting, asks embarrassing questions and, as a way of being shushed, is hired by the company. Once installed, she engineers shake-ups and scandals, and at the end is head of the corporation...
...thing of gags and gadgets, of blackouts, movie shots and the loudspeaker voice of Fred Allen, Cadillac is satire that is always hurrying off into routine farce. Its corporation characters are the merest cardboard. But it has a lot of funny lines, and it has dumpy, inimitable Veteran Hull. Her stage reminiscences are not the least of her charms. "Shakespeare," she recalls, "is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king...
...funnybone without a spine; it could almost be described as a satire without a viewpoint. It seem's put together with the very pins it sticks in others, though at its satiric best it can draw blood from cardboard. And since, at her best, Actress Hull can squeeze laughs out of a turnip, The Solid Gold Cadillac provides a nice, enjoyable evening...