Word: newmar
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Marriage-Go-Round (by Leslie Stevens) has three strings to its bow: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Julie Newmar. With their help, one of the season's crudest commodities may well become one of its most solid hits...
...women, he a professor of anthropology-in a small college town. At opposite ends of the stage they give cutey-cute lectures on marriage which, on a midstage merry-go-round-like set, they themselves help illustrate. As The Marriage-Go-Round's third or G-string, Actress Newmar plays an amply built Swedish blonde who. from out the whole world, has chosen Boyer to give her a child. Her body, she informs him, "is primed in readiness," nor is her use or adornment of it ever marred by reticence. While Colbert, who knows what's up, waits...
...child to compete; with not a moment's domestic small talk or campus chatter. So much single-mindedness, so many double meanings have a way-despite occasionally funny lines-of seeming both tedious and tawdry. Where The Marriage-Go-Round is not a Junoesque strip-tease on Actress Newmar's part, it becomes an attempted script-save on Colbert's and Boyer's. Their manner of saving it is to throw away as much of it as possible. What they give instead is an illustrated lecture-on the art of timing, of diversionary tactics, of seeming...