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...Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical (TIME, March...
...Call Me Madam was a good topical musical. Now as an historical motion picture, it is even better. For Call Me Madam was filmed as a part of the past--1951, when Harry Truman was entrenched in the White House and Perle Mesta rampant in Luxembourg. As contemporary satire, the Broadway version lacked bite; now, as a glossy tuneful bit of history, the film lacks nothing...
...Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...
...Call Me Madam is "a story of the past-1951. It takes place in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg-the other, the United States of America." As the show begins, folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There...
...revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water." His avocation was what he called "the gentle art of making enemies." A lady who asked him if he thought a certain sketch indecent was told, "No, madam, but your question is." When one of his students who had painted a "red elbow with green shadows" argued, "I am sure I just paint what I see," the Master answered, "Ah, but the shock will come when you see what you paint...