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Constanza grows up believing that Papa's unmentionable crime was some dark, monstrous Byronic business. When she finds out that Mama's big Mad Scene had been over nothing more than poor Papa's peccadillo, she is unimpressed-particularly as she is already giving her aristocratic English husband a bad time, not because she won't put up with his love affairs, but because, sophisticated and all that, he just can not put up with hers. So Constanza is left with her daughter Flavia, who at the age of ten shows similar signs...
Enter Laughing's late-teen-age hero (Alan Arkin) wants to be an actor, an exotic ambition that sends flutters of horror through the hearts of Papa (Marty Greene) and Mama (Sylvia Sidney), who want him to be a druggist. His perils and pratfalls as he develops his dubious talents in a flea-bitten acting school run by a haughty, boozed-up impresario (Alan Mowbray) and his daughter (Vivian Elaine) make for broad, boisterous fun. With his syrupy delivery, chipmunk facial grimaces and gift for lighting his own finger instead of the leading lady's cigarette. Arkin...
...Papa's Delicate Condition. "Vanilla." That's what Jackie Gleason calls his latest picture and that's what it basically is: sweet enough for the kids, plain enough for the grown folks-something the whole family can swallow without collywobbles. The concoction is inexpensive and attractive, and it should leave most customers ready (if not exactly roaring) for a second helping...
...Papa in real life was the papa of an old-time cinemama, Corinne Griffith, who wrote a book about him back in 1952. As the film describes it, life with Papa is one damn fling after another. Not that Papa is a drunk. But he is almost always in a "delicate condition,'' and when he is in a delicate condition he is apt to do any tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house...
...what does Mama (Glynis Johns) think of that? Don't worry. Faced with a choice between love and liquor, Papa gives up the hard sauce and at the happy-family fade decides he'll take vanilla...