Word: musicomical
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...down-to-earth skeptic of a Godmother (Edith Adams) with sequined eyelids and, for a magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth of song cues laid end to end. Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled to soften the children's fable for grownups by reforming the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters into merely pesky comic types. While making one of TV's biggest splashes...
...finally landing on Broadway than Broadway landing on him. It has bedded down this master of loud sounds in pointless noise; it has surrounded this demon of driving energy with feckless hullabaloo. The effect is of a nightclub talent not so much fighting his way out of a musicom-edy frame as out of a cage-and of having to elude a posse until it is so winded it lets him be the whole show...
Moulin Rouge (20th Century) is a sketchy compendium of familiar musicom edy patterns. Like Dancing Lady it is a backstage romance. Its show-within-a-show suggests Forty-Second Street. For plot, Moulin Rouge performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian...
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