Word: leeringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hooray for Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx; Decca LP). Six zany songs by the team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, best known for such ditties as Three Little Words. Groucho's audible leer, set off by a barbershop quintet, works over Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Hackenbush and the immortal Show Me a Rose ("Or leave me alone...
Edmond O'Brien has put on a little weight since his last blazing saga, and has a little trouble bounding over the roofs of moving box cars. His expression, long ago worn into the lines on his face, remains an unchanging leer. Dean Jaeger, the benevolent millionnaire on the verge of ruin, looks more the romantic lead than O'Brien. Whisker-checked Sterling Hayden might be taken for a goodie if you sit down in the middle of the picture. But the audience is lulled into believing that jowled O'Brien is the hero, because his leading lady is also...
...there. Too much of a sport to leave the games, he played them out, picking up two more in the course of his efforts. When he finished it was 9:35. The smile with which Lady Luck had beamed at Everett for four years suddenly turned to a dirty leer. He ran to Mem Hall and the proctor refused to admit him. He flunked the course, and thus out of college. His girl left him and his parents disowned him. And thus George Everett was started on the flashing road to ignominy...
...novel--Thomas Mitchell is excellent as the Beggar King of backstreet Paris, even Maureen O'Hara is adequate as a gypsy dancer who violates some sort of 16th century McCarran Act and gets the Dungeon in return. For my money, though, it's Laughton all the way. His sardonic leer and characteristic aplomb steal the show whether he is abducting a woman, riding gleefully on the swinging church bells, or swooping down from the sky to save Miss O'Hara from the hangman's noose. Toward the picture's end, as a mob of Parisian beggars storm Notre Dame...
...quiz program (NBC, Wed. 9 p.m., 8 p.m.), You Bet Your Life, is now well into its fifth season. When one of the contestants, a pretty and shapely high-school math teacher, explained that geometry is -the study of lines, curves and surfaces, Groucho gave his celebrated leer and panted, "Kiss me, fool!" The audience reaction threatened to blow the back out of the broadcasting theater. Groucho's jokes sound far funnier than they read afterwards. But there are exceptions, such as the one when he asked a tree surgeon on his program, Tell me, Doctor, did you ever fall...