Word: minnelli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though filled with plot-happy cartoon Commies, Flora is strangely plotless. A stammeringly angry young Red (Bob Dishy) sweet-and-sour-talks a guileless fashion illustrator (Liza Minnelli) into carrying a card. When she surprises him with a half-undressed, wholly unabashed, free-love enterpriser (Cathryn Damon) and discovers that the chip on his shoulder is his head, she rips up both card...
...Liza Minnelli, 17, daughter of Judy Garland, displayed a familiar, huskily tremulous voice and an engagingly energetic style in the off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward, was promptly signed to a record contract and offered her pick of parts in several films and half a dozen future Broadway musicals...
Ronny hit the big time in the picture business in the 1962 film version of The Music Man, has now been signed to star in a string of multimillion-dollar movies. Courtship, adapted from a slick novelette by Mark Toby and expertly directed by Vincente Minnelli, is the first of these. On the whole, it is just another sentimental comedy of the standard Hollywood brand. But at moments the sentiment warms to pathos, at others the pathos breaks up in belly laughs; and in all these moments Ronny is the live wire that sparks the show...
...change of pace in the saga of Singer Judy Garland, 40. First, Judy flew to London to toast her new film, / Could Go On Singing, and buss British Juvenile Gregory Phillips, 15, who plays her son. So far, so good. Then back to Manhattan, where real-life daughter Liza Minnelli, 17, appearing on TV with Jack Paar and struggling through rehearsals for an off-Broadway musical, had fractured a bone in her foot. Finally the trolley ran out of gas, and Judy, laid low by flu in her St. Regis Hotel suite, couldn't have felt less like singing...
...leaves the customers to assume that Hollywood, no matter where you find it, is hell, and the people who run it are devils. It may be so, but this movie won't make anybody believe it or even care. The moviemakers clearly want people to care. Director Vincente Minnelli and Actor Douglas have worked hard on the film. They are dead serious-and therein lies their error: the subject is too trivial for serious treatment. It could probably be more tellingly developed as a farce. Imagine all those cinemoguls washing their dirty Lincolns in public...