Word: leisen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little escapade plunges the young people into a pretty kettle of fishy dilemmas and New England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry Hull's rich mint-julep accent served up as a deep-dish Yankee drawl...
...great credit of the players that they make themselves not only believable but, on the whole, bearable. It is still more to the credit of Director Leisen that this little stroll through the zoo somehow gives the effect of being quite a civilized movie...
Suddenly It's Spring (Paramount) is one of those plump, shiny comedies that Director Mitchell Leisen can pack-and Paramount can crank out-like so many frankfurters. Items: 1) the leading characters, most of whom are presented as nice people, go through their romancing about as honorably as so many rutting hyenas; 2) by glance, leer, double-take and triple-talk, the audience is continually nudged with strong suggestions of amorous hanky-panky; 3) all the bedroom-eyeing is technically codeproof because the two chief romancers are married...
Director Mitchell Leisen obviously went to extraordinary lengths to make Kitty's costumes, props and sets look like the real thing. He could hardly have been more reverent in evoking the proper atmosphere had he been doing a story of Elsie Dinsmore...
...kind of thing Rosalind Russell has been do.ng in a series of career-woman pictures, most of which have made rather unfunny use of her firm talent for comedy. This time she has the welcome assistance of a first-rate Claude Binyon script, the expert direction of J. Mitchell Leisen, and a chorus of sweet supporting performers. Result: a very funny full-dress comedy...