Word: niven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aided by a witty script adapted from the Broadway play, the small cast carries off the film with a light touch and rapid pace, yet with a certain feel for real situations and natural reactions. David Niven is marvelously and hilariously restrained as the psychoanalyst who is not quite so tolerant of human inconsistencies when he discovers that his own fiancee has had a very interesting past. Barbara Rush plays his slightly tarnished True Love with typical feminine capriciousness. Ginger Rogers is very funny indeed as the wife who regularly pours out her troubles to her psychoanalyst...
Bundle of Joy (RKO Radio). The original of this movie, released in 1939, was called Bachelor Mother, a title bearing such intimations of immorality that the studio had to fight the censors to retain it. The movie was a spoof of bastardy. But with Ginger Rogers and David Niven starred in it and with Hollywood's boy wonder of the day, 26-year-old Garson Kanin, directing, the spoof was wholesome, human and hilarious. Bundle of Joy is wholesome. It is an energetic attempt to prove that what was done so deftly in the '30s, Hollywood...
...moreover, is a deft, witty spoof of Verne's book, which in turn was a spoof of the English, so that the moviegoer often experiences the refined pleasures of laughing at a man who is laughing at somebody else. The main roles are competently carried out by David Niven, Shirley MacLaine and the late Robert Newton, and most of the big stars are effectively scattered about the picture, like sequins on an elephant. But the star of stars is the famous Mexican comic, Cantinflas. In his first U.S. movie, he gives delightful evidence that he may well...
...Amos Niven Wilder, Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard...
...plot: Simple-Simon Gobel, heir to a frankfurter fortune, is dogged by Fortune Hunters Niven and Gaynor. In mid-picture, Gobel concludes that Mitzi wants his pelf, instead of his self, and renounces her. Producer Paul Jones liked this idea so much that he has it played all over again, but it is not much funnier the second time around. About the only bright note: the catchy title song neatly handled by Gobel and Gaynor...