Word: mitzi
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...informality, with tricks which other Hollywood directors are bound to imitate. Chevalier addresses the audience from time to time and tells them, to make sure that they understand the story, that he is in love with his wife, Colette (Jeannette MacDonald), but tantalized by her best friend. Mitzi (Genevieve Tobin). Most of the dialog, instead of being poorly translated German as is usually the case in Lubitsch opera, is in easy, loosely rhymed couplets. Sample...
...Mitzi: He's gone, but he had such a wonderful touch...
...been sent west to lead a quiet life. Wheeler & Woolsey arrive at the dude ranch in a taxi. Wheeler i? induced to run for sheriff, an office as dangerous to its incumbent as the presidency of a South American republic. Wheeler giggles constantly; Woolsey chews cigars. A small girl (Mitzi Green) gives impersonations of Bing Crosby, Roscoe Ates, Edna May Oliver and George Arliss. A girl named Kitty Kelly sings three Gershwin songs from the stage version of Girl Crazy ("I've Got Rhythm." "Bidin' My Time," "Not for Me"). Eventually the happy adjustment of a minor romance between...
...that worn by Sir Austen Chamberlain or the late Baron Ehrenfried Gtinther von Hunefeld arrived in Manhattan last week on the S.S. Bremen. It came securely fixed in the eye of German Tenor Richard Tauber who, to perfect the scene, carried a pet dachshund under each arm, Fritzi & Mitzi...
Dude Ranch (Paramount). Jack Oakie, Eugene Pallette, Stuart Erwin and Mitzi Green have an hour of good fun in a comedy which is partly a satire on westerns, partly a melodrama in its own right. The idea is one of those really comic inspirations whose single disadvantage is that they can never be made quite as funny as their intention. Bored guests, feeling that frontier atmosphere has become effete, are about to leave the dude ranch when the proprietor hires a troupe of vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which...