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...Along the Way goes all the way in trying to squeeze the last tear and laugh from its material. Nonetheless, it is high-toned hokum. Stealing the show from veteran Actors Coburn and Wayne is eleven-year-old Sherry Jackson in an artfully artless performance as Wayne's pert young daughter...
...cane-twirling darling of Continental and American revues. In fact, his charm makes it hard to understand how the young girl could prefer the bumbling young actor. While Francois Perreier, who plays Jacques, is properly eager, mooning and puffing in approximation of romantic ardor, and Marcelle Derrien is a pert and lovely Madeleine, both pale in the light of Chevalier's dazzling smile...
...course of I Love Melvin, pert Debbie Reynolds impersonates a football in a gridiron dance number. Donald O Connor does a tap dance on roller skates and goes through some amusing rapid costume changes in a photographer's gallery. But the picture leaves O'Connor's musical-comedy talents largely untapped...
Blonde Patricia McCormick, 23, who left Texas Western College two years ago determined to master the rugged art of bullfighting, survived her first "baptism of blood." The pert torera, who made her professional debut in Juárez last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said...
Bloodhounds of Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a howl with their own particular brand of doleful dramatics...