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Most of the time, though, he steals from Colgate-smile comedies. His sexy red bed--television, music, and massage at the flick of a switch--comes straight out of The Yum Yum Tree. In both movies, Jack Lemmon and Sellers play second banana to mechanical gadgets...
...three principals, only Elaine May, as the wife, is well cast, but she is pitching in a game with no catchers. Peter Falk is too simian and heavy for the popinjay part of her wayward husband, and as a Jewish urban type, Jack Lemmon is frantic without being at all funny. Luv is too good a comedy to die this way; people who have never seen it will do better to find a road company of the play...
...Better Lemmon. For such reckless abandon Crawford pays a price. In Black Comedy to date, he has suffered a whiplash neck, a gashed and infected back, four ankle sprains, eight torn ligaments, and splinters in all ten fingers. The other night, while fastening the neck brace he has to wear between performances, he was asked why he didn't put out a little less or stay home and play his favorite sport of Monopoly. Crawford, aghast at such an unprofessional thought, replied: "I wouldn't give up those laughs for anything. My injuries are pleasure bumps...
...mutual. New York Times Critic Walter Kerr wrote: "He deserves a Tony, if not the Nobel, for expertise in a special nose-bashing category." Richard Lester, who directed the Beatles' movies and three of Crawford's, last year called him "England's answer to Jack Lemmon." Last week Lester corrected himself, saying that "Michael is no one but himself now, and I think he'll be one of the great, great stars." Veteran British Actor Peter Bull, who is featured with him in Black Comedy, says: "There is no limit to what...
Nevertheless, there was something instinctive about Cohn's fancy, if not his fanny. He respected talent, and he succeeded in getting some of Hollywood's best people to work for him. Leo McCarey, Robert Rossen, Frank Capra and George Stevens directed his films; Humphrey Bogart, Jack Lemmon, William Holden, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Claudette Colbert and Judy Holliday acted in them. And some of Cohn's features are classics: // Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, All the King's Men, Born Yesterday...