Word: lemmon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phffft! Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday, as man and exwife, give a wacky answer to the divorce question (TIME...
Blondie, Jack Lemmon her disinterested Dagwood. and everything goes phffft! one night because of the leer that crawls over Jack's face as he wallows through a whodunit, where it describes how "she began, one button at a time, to undo the front of her sweater . . ." Judy flounces off to get a divorce; Jack takes up bachelor quarters with a friend (Jack Carson...
Carson gets Lemmon a date with something "basic" (Kim Novak), who gives him that little-girl look, confides that she almost went to college and majored in music - "I was a drum majorette." Meanwhile, Judy has an experience with a charm boy (Donald Curtis) who asks her up to his "an teem" apartment. Jack enters a painting class, sprouts a moustache and buys a lima bean-shaped sports-car. So it goes, and very merrily indeed, until separate existence is just too much to wrestle with, and Judy and Jack get a firm new wedlock on each other...
...three principals-Holliday, Lemmon and Carson-have spent so much of their acting careers in the straitjacket of formula farce that they wear it like high-fashion undies. Carson is a very slick comedian; his expression, as he muses on the possibilities of a round bed, could hardly have been improved on by W. C. Fields. Holliday and Lemmon, after only two pictures together, must be acknowledged as the smoothest new comedy team in show business. A nice bit: Holliday, slopping together an amateur Martini for Carson, says anxiously, "I probably bruised the gin." Carson looks. "Not a mark...
...Plays of 1954 (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Marriageable Male with Ida Lupino, Jack Lemmon...