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...shows are having an even tougher passage. Phyllis, starring Cloris Leachman, and Fay, with Lee Grant, came close to never getting on the air at all. Phyllis Executive Producer Ed Weinberger almost choked when CBS meddled with the pilot, in which the widowed Phyllis suspects her 17-year-old daughter of having an affair. Says Phyllis, as she ends an explanatory phone conversation with her daughter: "Nothing happened-if she is telling the truth." CBS cut the tag line...
...stars, roles and songs, most of which originated in the '30s. The hunch-backed servant Igor (Marty Feldman) has the bulging eyes and eerie mischievousness of Harpo Marx, or of the Charles Adams cartoon character who later became known as Uncle Fester. He delivers one-liners like Groucho. Cloris Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity and even the cap and cloak of Sherlock Holmes...
...disbelief. He is quickly seduced, though, by the siren call of Victor's madness and is soon trying to reproduce the experiments. He is aided by a shapely but vacant assistant called Inga (Teri Garr) and by the stainless-steel housekeeper Frau Blucher, played by Cloris Leachman, who does a skillful and witty parody on the Judith Anderson role in Hitchcock's Rebecca...
...story concerns the great consternation brought about in Continental society by the appearance of Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd), a rich American girl touring Europe with her mother (Cloris Leachman) and bratty little brother (James McMurtry). Daisy flirts openly with a gaudy Italian opportunist, causing something of a scandal, while teasing an upright young American expatriate named Winterbourne (Barry Brown). The latter observes, with a mixture of melancholy and enchantment, her flouting of convention, and feels drawn to her. Daisy eventually catches "the Roman fever" late at night in the Colosseum, and dies of the figurative effects of culture shock...
Most of the actors behave with the sort of animation generally reserved for lyings-in-state, although Cloris Leachman's Mrs. Miller is skittish and well observed. Bogdanovich, a hugely eclectic director, borrows heavily here again. The use of a popular tune-Maggie, in this instance-as a sort of sentimental signature comes directly from John Ford, and the mood of much of the light-comedy moments seems a gloss on Ernst Lubitsch. The film's opening is quite ravishing, however-the early moments of a hotel stirring for a new day-and throughout there is a kind...