Word: lemmon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Holliday and her two marquee running mates attempt to make up for what the plot lacks in coherence and pace. Playing a playboy with a turn for ear kissing, Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...
...Most Like to Be Up in the Air With." Gladys has at last become a Somebody. But there is a moral: a Somebody is sometimes only a nobody that everybody has heard about. With this thought in her pretty head, she is patiently led away by the boy (Jack Lemmon) she has really loved all along...
...comedy situation is worked for all the laughs it's worth by Scripter Garson Kanin and Director George Cukor. It gets more from the faultlessly schooled comedy of Actress Holliday and a fresh, sharply timed performance by Actor Lemmon, making his screen debut...
...Soundstage (Fri. 9130 p.m., NBC). Jack Lemmon in One Swell...
Room Service (by John Murray & Allen Boretz), at Manhattan's White Way Hotel, has gone downhill since 1937. George Abbott no longer directs operations there, and though the present staff (John Randolph, Everett Sloane, Jack Lemmon) is conscientious and willing, it lacks the ingratiating touch the old staff (Sam Levene, Philip Loeb, Teddy Hart) had. Even in 1937 that touch was decidedly needed: Room Service is for the most part hack farce, and only as a skillful exhibition of the dodges and makeshifts of show business, a lively conglomeration of classic...