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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy Anniversary. On their 13th anniversary, Husband David Niven and Wife Mitzi Gaynor remember their premarital hotel room in a mattress farce that is slick, sleazy, but hilarious...
Happy Anniversary. On their 13th anniversary, Husband David Niven and Wife Mitzi Gaynor remember their premarital hotel room in a mattress farce that is slick, sleazy, but hilarious...
...slid over into the curvature of his form-fitting mattress and stared pensively at the Dali print which was taped upside down on the ceiling. It didn't seem to inspire him to breakfast. Perhaps, he thought--and the thought chilled him to the quick--this is the Sunday there is no breakfast. Dilworth had not protested when the Administration decided to eliminate breakfast on alternate Sundays. After all, as an empirical fact, he had never known Sunday breakfast ever to exist...
Happy Anniversary (Fields Productions; United Artists) is a vulgar, slick, hilarious film version of Anniversary Waltz (TIME, April 19, 1954), a common mattress farce, put together by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields, that packed the Broadway tourists in for more than 17 months. The plot is just a house of comic greeting cards, but Chodorov and Fields, who also wrote the script, have stacked them up with impressive skill. David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor, it develops, are a big-city couple in the five-figure set who are celebrating their 13th anniversary. All goes well until Husband Niven gives...
...Hemp. In Seattle, the suburban Grinnell & McLean furniture store ballyhooed "Mother-in-Law Mattresses," sale-priced at $9.95, craftily explained to buyers: "After mother-in-law has gone home because of the mattresses' strange odor of miscured sisal, the handy homemaker can cover the otherwise-perfect 510-coil mattress so that it will give years of odor-free comfort and sound sleep...