Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture's chief novelty: cool, blonde Alexis Smith, try as she will, fails to inspire the hero to Better Things. With her ladylike beauty, Alexis has made quite a Hollywood careeer of inspiring heroes, especially composers (the film George Gershwin and the film Cole Porter, both under Alexis' magic spell, sat right down and dashed off their best music). But she doesn't quite click with the screen's young Maugham. The poor boob goes right on yearning for that impossible, vulgar hashslinger...
Night and Day (Warner), purporting to be a biography of popular Songsmith Cole Porter, is another of Hollywood's celluloid shrines to the living...
Life thus far, according to this picture, has been busy but mildly boring for Composer Porter (Cary Grant). As a youth with a talent for songwriting, he annoys a wealthy grandfather by walking out on his Yale law books. Pride prompts him to snub the girl he loves-a well-to-do blonde (Alexis Smith) who longs to support him. Eventually wed, famed and wallowing in royalties, he gets into domestic hot water by neglecting pretty Mrs. Porter for his fascinating work...
Around the World (adapted by Orson Welles from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...
Unwisely, too, Welles's extravaganza from time to time pauses for identification as a musical comedy. But the love interest, the exotic dances and Cole Porter's tired tunes merely check the pace without livening the party...