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The stay-arounds are South Pacific, with Mary Martin and Ray Middleton at the Majestic on 44th; Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, with Anno Jeffreys at the Shubert on 44th; Carol Channing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Anita Loos satire at the Ziogfeld at 54th and Sixth Avenue; and...
In Manhattan, Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes') Loos explained why she had changed the title of her new novel on Hollywood life from Sex Doesn't Last to A Mouse Is Born. The first choice, she said, "is a lousy title. What I mean is the principle of the...
Sometimes things get so simple that they stop being history. Brooding over the tomb of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, in Gloucester's handsome cathedral, McKenney drops into a palsy-walsy reverie: "Poor old Robert. I have always wondered why they called him Curthose. Maybe his stockings kept slipping...
Excellent performances by Dailey and Anne Baxter, as well as a supporting cast that includes Walter Brennan and Connie Gilchrist, bring out all the fun in a deft script by Mary Loos and Richard Sale (When Willie Comes Marching Home).
There is some lag in the early parts of the film, but when the Mary Loos-Richard Sale script finally manages to give Willie (Dan Dailey) his overseas assignment, it hits the stride of runaway farce. Within a wild four days, Willie flies the Atlantic twice, bails out of a...