Word: munshin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mostel) is, by self-definition, "a flaming faggot." He is also a zany, successful author who has never paid his income tax. The I.R.S. has ferreted out his secret, and Morley has been forced to throw himself on the mercy of tax advisers. His chief consultant, Irving Spaatz (Jules Munshin), is a legal weasel of wizardry inventiveness. Munshin plays the role in droll fashion and is astonishingly agile at working his way through a verbal tax maze of inflated gibberish that includes explanations of convertible debentures, spinoffs, and sale-leaseback arrangements...
Tuesday, August 20 The Dick Powell Show (NBC, 9:30-10-30 p.m.). Anthony Franciosa, Julie London, Jim Backus, Jules Munshin, Cesar Romero and Zsa Zsa Gabor are featured in a melodrama of staggering complexity revolving around a beleaguered nightclub owner...
...wholesome as sunshine, resists this metamorphosis, and Italy's Chiari, though he clowns likably in his U.S. debut, acts as if the throb in his heart has gone to his head. There is more bricklayer than boudoir in his voice. As the hero's pal, Comic Jules Munshin is as frisky as a seal at feeding time, and the dialogue he gets is just as fishy ("How did she take it?" "Lying down"). Maybe Old Vienna should be given back to the National Geographic...
...least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland-and full of family bluntness. And in Show Girl's freshest idea for a skit, Miss Channing and Munshin play the Lunts fussing like two Hausfrauen over the theater named after them...
...only as Alfred Lunt, but as a thinly veiled Impresario S. Hurok, Munshin has chances to show his mettle, and Les Quat' Jeudis are agreeably different, or French enough to seem so. As the author of almost everything spoken or sung, Charles Gaynor is not uniformly sprightly. Indeed, Show Girl is full of ups and downs, but is never long enough down for dire trouble, and is often high enough up with its star to be one of the season's few real sources of laughter...