Word: languors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederic March plays the title role with the fury, the languor, and the sly wit of the original Twain. If the story fails to hold one's interest all the way through, it is not because of the acting but rather because of the slowness of the last half hour's plot. Alexis Smith, stripped of all glamour and dressed in the old-fashioned clothes in which a flatchested, anemic young girl and a 19th century Hedy Lamarr would look identical, turns in a sentimental performance as Mrs. Twain, whose job it is to control her impetuous husband and give...
...lived on skates. Yet it is the actual skatin -the grace of Carol Lynne, the teamwork of the Caley Sisters, the precision of the ice ballet-that gives Hats Off most of its lift; the big, exotic production numbers are pretty enough, but they induce more Persian or Hawaiian languor than they mean...
Dead-pan Alice Faye shakes off her languor to give a reasonably presentable performance as a holidaying Manhattan salesgirl with a steamship agent (John Payne) and a Brooklyn Cuban (Cesar Romero) to see that she has a good time. She does...
Before the snagging of a solid millionaire (Robert Cummings) resolves this fiscal impasse, Moon has used up seven woefully unimaginative tunes, the pneumatic assets of the Misses Grable, Landis, Cobina Wright Jr., the semitropical color and languor of Miami, the devilishly clever, coy stock-in-trade that passes for acting with Mr. Ameche, and $1,000,000 worth of Darryl Zanuck's money...