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...packed houses at Wonderful Town are as entranced by Rosalind's creaky dancing as by her croaking voice. Any one of the 13 chorus girls can dance better than she does. But, like such great performers as Ethel Merman and. Bea Lillie, Rosalind Russell represents the triumph of personality over technique: she communicates to her audience all the rewarding warmth and humor of shared experience...
Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox), the 1950 Broadway hit musical, has become a handsome, hilarious, surefire hit movie. Ethel Merman struts and shouts her way through her original stage role as a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador. Irving Berlin's catchy score is practically intact (dropped: the topical I Like Ike; added: Berlin's 1913 The International Rag and his 1940 What Chance Have I with Love?). At its Technicolored best-with Walter Lang's zestful direction, Robert Alton's dances and a topnotch supporting cast-the movie is a bouncier, better show than...
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...
...best of all the movie captures on film the special talents of Ethel Merman. In her first picture since the 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band, the trumpet-voiced queen of Broadway musicomedy annexes Hollywood as well. From the opening scene, she sparkplugs the picture with a powerhouse personality. When she is in front of the camera-kicking at her train and tugging at her girdle before a royal reception, or holding a running phone conversation with "Harry" about Bess's health and Margaret's press notices-the show never has a chance to lag. When she lets...
...leaving Cambridge for the weekend, don't jumble all your pretties, Do as Ethel Merman does. Get a satchel. Polished, always correct, patent leather is our suggestion...