Word: mowbray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheeling fooling, that it will please practically anybody some of the time and practically nobody all of the time. People who like first-rate finesse will enjoy bits of brisket from Kurt Weill's musical ribroast, the most teasing twists in Ira Gershwin's lyrics, and Alan Mowbray pretending to be Eric Blore pretending to be George Washington. People who like oafishly coy satire about on a par with summer-camp imitations of Gilbert & Sullivan will find stretches of that. Between these broad extremes, however, the show rumbles along Technicolorfully and, on the whole, quite amusingly, with some...
Notable bit: white-tied Alan Mowbray, quite sufficiently listed as an "English Gentleman," dislocating the rest of the film by his monumental, effortless detachment towards Robert Young, his own surroundings, and the comedy in general...
...expect, and who makes love quite correctly. Laurence Olivier as Lord Nelson is scarcely more than adequate, although at times he gives indication of genuine acting ability. However, honors for acting go to the supporting roles of Sir William Hamilton and the phlegmatic Captain Hardy, convincingly portrayed by Alan Mowbray and Henry Wilcoxon. Nevertheless, the picture is a historical love story of the type which has been done before many times, and much better...
...patients are as dated as sugar daddies. For cigar-faced Director Ernst Lubitsch, they can form the nucleus of a whole amusing movie about well-cushioned life with the upper crust. He proves it by sending Merle Oberon, a healthy Park Avenue socialite, to consult a Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray) at the beginning of the picture. When she tells him there is nothing wrong with her, he says: "I'm sure you will feel differently when you leave this office." She does. Her happy marriage to a solidly normal insurance salesman (Melvyn Douglas) is disrupted by another...
...Villain Still Pursued Her" is second on the bill but is its first, and sole, attraction. It is solid, old-fashioned stuff with explanatory asides and soliloquies and even a moral. Anita Louise makes a lovely flower of innocence, but the big black villain (Alan Mowbray) steals the show (his attempts to steal Anita are foiled in time...