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...Millionaire for Christy (Thor Productions; 20th Century-Fox) falls, with a resounding thud, under the heading of madcap romantic farce. Heroine Christy (Eleanor Parker), a fortune-hunting legal secretary charged with telling a client (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2,000,000, decides to make a favorable impression on the heir apparent before spilling the good news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money...
Washington. After giving more butterfat in her milk than any other cow in U.S. history, Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a moon-eyed Holstein belonging to the Carnation Co., was crowned "Queen of All Cows." At Daisy's coronation, Carnation Director G. S. Bulkley pronounced the eulogy: "To the dairy cow: protector of our natural health and wealth, fountain of youth of this modern day. To the dairy cow: our slave, our friend, our foster mother. Thank God for the dairy...
...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...
...Basil Rathbone tells the audience Toad inhabits his ancestral home, Toad Hall. Instead of acting with the dignity befitting a young man in such circumstances, Toad is a madcap adventurer, a faddist whose fancies often become manias of the most compulsive (and hilarious) sort. After cavorting about the countryside in a canary-yellow cart drawn by a horse named Cyril, Toad winds up in the Tower of London...
Maurice Evans and Edna Best change their peace from a mismatched couple filled with hate for each other, in the first one-act play of Terrance Rattigan's "Double Bill," to a madcap theatrical team in the second...