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Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical (TIME, March...
...Ethel Merman is again Ambassador Sally Adams: brassy, breezy and profane. She intimidates the Irving Berlin songs with her raucous voice, getting out every beat of rhythm and a good deal of the tune. With her immense mouth and her bright, frank eyes--for twenty years symbols of Broadway--she gives the film the excitement of authentic musical-comedy...
...Miss Merman has been given better support in Hollywood than on Broadway. George Sanders, as the Prime Minister of Lichtenburg, is amiable with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...
...evidently less partisan. "You're Just in Love," which held up the show for six encores in New York, is repeated often enough to satisfy even the most dogged. And the first song, "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" is a good-natured introduction to Miss Merman and the spirit of the film...
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...