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Although some of the actors have let the show down, the film is far from a failure. The Frank Loesser's music is as tuneful as ever, even after the unaccountable omission of two of his best songs, I've Never Been in Love Before and My Time of Day. In their place, he has added a new number called A Woman in Love. His lyrics are literate and amusing...
...they peruse what Runyon called "the morning bladder." In fact, from first to last-and the last dance is a thrilling choreography, set in a picturesque sewer, of the primordial rite of dice-Michael Kidd has staged his ballets even more effectively than he did on Broadway. Frank Loesser's lyrics are classy, too, whether his music is or not, and Director Joseph Mankiewicz has often made the most of a very good Broadway book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows...
...smash successes Pajama Game, The Member of the Wedding, South Pacific and Don Juan in Hell. Movies? Sullivan's show pioneered in showing pre-release snatches of films (as in this week's Guys & Dolls, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra, with music by Frank Loesser). Comedians? Ed has ransacked the U.S. and Europe for funnymen; Victor Borge, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis all made their TV debuts on the Sullivan program. Spectaculars? Ed is convinced that the basic idea came from such Toast of the Town biographies as those of Oscar Hammerstein...
Most of their first years together were spent writing special material for nightclub acts and TV shows (e.g., Stop the Music}. The first glimmer of bigger success came when Songwriter Frank (Guys and Dolls}) Loesser decided they were a promising team, and signed them up for his new publishing house. Among their 150-odd songs: last winter's hit, Rags to Riches, seven numbers for John Murray Anderson's Almanac...
...interior musical, also called "Me and Juliet," is a parody of all musical-comedy, with special pokes at Cole Porter and Frank Loesser. The plot of the main show, however, can only be a parody of Rodgers and Hammerstein-with all the unnatural villainies and pat romances which on occasion have plagued the team. This time, the action is so melodramatic and unreal that the audience cannot accept the characters as people...