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...introduced by a nervous Gary Grant, her onetime leading man. Highlight No. 3: Pearl Bailey hamming it up in her Hello, Dolly! number with what may have been the highest priced male chorus line of all time: Sammy Davis Jr., Rock Hudson, Jack Lemmon, Greg Morris, Joe Namath, David Niven and Don Rickles. "At the finish," reported Women's Chairman Rosalind Russell, "people were crying, throwing their programs in the air, standing in ovation. The whole thing was glorious...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and David Niven are members. Bing Crosby has been a frequent guest. But at White's, the 277-year-old London gentlemen's club, evidently enough show biz is enough. After Frank Sinatra was shown around the hallowed premises by Fairbanks and a party including the Earls of Perth and Westmorland, one old Tory sniffed: "Doug was a silly old fool to have done that. Bing Crosby, yes. But this is a different matter...
...Rome's Cinecitta film complex, craftsmen are putting the finishing touches on an 18-ft., 550-lb. plaster statue of a male nude who could be a cousin of Michelangelo's David. From the neck up it is David-David Niven, that is. Niven has never seen the colossus, which is intended for his aptly titled film The Statue. His features were copied from photos. But he has learned that it deviates in one significant way from the prototype. "The statue has a fig leaf," the actor notes. "And quite a large...
DIRECTOR Joe McGrath's cast represents a careless compromise between faulty characterization and movie-mag exploitation. The choice of Peter Sellers as Sir Guy is bad enough without making him as much like David Niven as was humanly possible. One suspects that Niven wasn't cast only because Sellers has more experience delivering inane lines. Sellers tries to invest his practical jokes with a little humor by varying his voice, letting it range all the way from aristocratic nasality to extreme aristocratic nasality...
...Niven's lines are given a martini-dry delivery, and the Belmondo-Bourvil team meshes with the cooperative, competitive flair of Graebner and Ashe. Given those talents, the film might have been considerably more. Still, in a sorry season, The Brain is smart enough to pass for comedy. Th-th-that's all, folks...