Word: lembeck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter's triumphant reworking of Young Will's Taming of the Shrew; with Alfred Drake and Pa tricia Morison from the original Broad way cast, plus Julie Wilson, Bill Hayes and Harvey Lembeck to add a few grace notes. Color...
...comparison, Ruth's story-helped by winning performances from Virginia Vincent and Harvey Lembeck-is entertaining, though at an inch-above-comic-strip level. It suggests that when Playwright Reeves abandons pretenses and writes to please in a straight popular-comedy vein, he may very well prove pleasing...
...barbed-wire compound at intervals, he has made a fluent film of the play. He has also got crisp characterizations from his cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis. Don Taylor, Richard Erdman, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves and Co-Author Trzcinski himself play P.W.s. Robert Strauss repeats his stage role as Animal, a big, hairy oaf who lumbers around in long winter underwear dreaming out loud about-Betty Grable...
Back at the Front (Universal-International) continues the service misadventures of Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed infantrymen, Willie (Tom Ewell) and Joe (Harvey Lembeck). In last year's Up Front, Willie and Joe (then played by David Wayne) were dodging the MPs in Naples during World War II. In Back at the Front, they are still dodging the MPs, this time in Tokyo during the Korean...
...movie oils its large-scale, mechanized slapstick with some of the camaraderie of Broadway's Mister Roberts. It also wisely recruits a key enlisted man (Harvey Lembeck) from that show's original cast. Unfortunately, the script is not up to the job of sustaining the hilarity of its idea at feature length. The picture loses pressure when repeating its shenanigans, sighs windily in romantic interludes between Cooper and his WAVE wife (Jane Greer). But more frequently, when it gets up a full head of steam, U.S.S. Teakettle bubbles with...