Word: montalban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ricardo Montalban, as Koli, fills the role, but with nothing special. He has one good song, a Calypso mockery of mankind called "Monkey in a Mango Tree." Josephine Premice, as the opportunistic second-to-most-eligible female around, is first rate, especially in "Leave the Atom Alone," an amusing try by the show's authors to be socially significant. Ossie Davis does well as her occasional beau, Erik Rhodes as the exaggerated British governor of the island, Augustine as a lovable urchin, and Adelaide Hall as a homey, cloud-reading sage...
...stops the show. With one or two Gwen Verdons, Seventh Heaven might bounce to victory the way the equally uninspired Can-Can did. Seventh Heaven does have some reasonably lively dancing and some agreeable sentimental tunes. But it lacks production excitement: Hollywood's Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban make love seem pleasantly unmemorable, and no one makes sin very thrilling. Sin, in fact, is a good deal more lavendered than scarlet -the hotcha is mostly oo-la-la, the Paris mostly an old-fashioned Gay Paree. The last show of the season, Seventh Heaven might have wound...
Except for an occasional landscape such as "Montalban," which shows the same decorative and emotive technique applied to nature, Matisse devoted himself mostly to the nude, for, as he explained, "it is through it that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have toward life." The variety of works in this exhibit concerning the nude provide in themselves an excellent insight into the development of Matisse's style...
When Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban take over from their dancing colleagues, the play shows little noticeable improvement. Certainly, few actors could appear rational in a dialogue such as the serious conversation about atheism which they must carry on in a sewer, but it would hardly be excessive to ask the stars of a musical to be able to sing. As the chanteuse Diane, however, Miss Miss DeHaven reveals only a rather light voice which requires amplification, while Montalban, cast in the role of Chico the sewer-cleaner, is content to speak rather than sing his lyrics. Neither gets much...
...many moviegoers are of looking at them. Using plenty of stock shots and operating on a low budget, the film goes on a foot-dragging Technicolor pilgrimage through 13th century Italy, with a side trip to the Holy Land for one of the skimpiest Crusades in filmland history. Ricardo Montalban plays the peasant hero who does battle with evil barons, cruel Saracens and assorted charmers, including Betta St. John and blonde Carolyn Jones, a graduate of TV's Dragnet. Despite the costumes, the atmosphere is more that of the Middle West than the Middle Ages, just as the plot...