Word: milksop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...star, placed part of the burden of getting laughs on the other members of the cast. The Milky Way, his fifth talking picture, is to date the most successful demonstration of this method. It is an entirely unsophisticated and uproariously funny farce built around the reliable situation of a milksop forced by fate to be a prizefighter. However, unlike Chaplin's Modern Times (TIME, Feb. 17) which would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd...