Word: jolliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There is some smart choreography in the dance of a paper dervish, and one terrific production number in which Actor Tamblyn goes tumbling about Tom Thumb's bedroom-skinning the cat on a baby's crib that...
...while carving up Joey, both creates and burlesques a raft of dance routines. What with the nightclub background, the second act possibly suffers from a take-off or so too many; but now as aforetimes Robert Alton's choreography has amazing liveliness, and the hoofing chorines are the jolliest bunch of girls in several seasons...