Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jean Negulesco, who has played mixed doubles before (Three Coins in the Fountain), uses the same formula in Technicolored Manhattan instead of Rome. Shuttling from one couple to the next, he tries to combine broad farce with narrow moralizing on success, at humor's expense. But before the best man wins the $125,000 job, there are a couple of laughs. Best scene: the feline bedlam of a hundred half-dressed women of all ages and shapes battling for cut-rate dresses in a bargain basement on 14th Street...
...Saturday morning shows include education films dealing with the home life of otters and salmon. The CBS dog show Lassie is soon to get a canine rival in ABC's filmed Rin Tin Tin. ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie is seen every weekday, but its gentle humor probably has a larger audience among grownups than kids...
...picked up a working knowledge of French and Spanish in a matter of days. He can imitate someone precisely after watching him for two minutes. He almost never answers the phone in his own voice, usually convinces the caller that he is someone else. His sense of humor is as graphic as an otter's. One day a woman columnist walked up to him and said in a sugary voice: "Why, you look like everybody else!" Marlon stared at her for a moment in silence, then turned without a word to the nearest corner and stood on his head...
...Humor, and especially Benchley's humor, has no commonly accepted high point. The preamble can be as funny as the punch line, if there is any, and each story is up to the individual. If the individual likes it snide, he can have it; if he likes it zany, it's here. Long, short, tall, reserved, stupid, odd, out-of-place, out-of-taste, all of them are here--almost ninety of them...
Gina is cast as a peasant girl of the Abruzzi mountains, a sort of cross between Lady Godiva, the farmer's daughter and a merrily uncommon scold. The butt of some pretty rich barnyard humor as she bounces around the countryside on her donkey, Gina gives as good as she gets. Her ragged dress appears inadequate for keeping the weather out, but it lets in a lot of stares. However, a peep is all the village Toms get. Gina is in love with a local cop (Roberto Risso), and he with her. Police regulations, however, deplore such goings...