Word: rex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's light-hearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...
...Reluctant Debutante (Avon; MGM) in its stage incarnation was the kind of drawing-room comedy that critics called "pleasant" for want of anything worse to say about it. But transferred to the screen and run through a high-speed Mixmaster of comic invention by Rex Harrison and Wife Kay (Les Girls) Kendall, this lukewarm cup of tea has been turned into cheery summer punch...
Comedienne Kendall glides like an angular jellyfish through the role of Lady Broadbent, an elegant snob who sets out to make Husband Rex's teen-age American daughter (by his first marriage) the toast of the London "season." The toast, Sandra Dee, takes a lot of buttering up. After dancing with bumble-footed toffs at her first ball, she murmurs in a beguiling Bronx accent, "They're all drips...
...amorous kiddies take off for a night's nightclubbing. As Kay paces in the wee hours, Rex reaches philosophically for the brandy. "After all," he muses, "it isn't how much we drink that matters. It's how much she drinks." Actress Kendall herself, in the midst of preparing a lunatic scheme to trap the cad, pauses long enough to exclaim: "Isn't this tremendous...
...Jack (Twenty-One) Barry one day last week, in the midst of staging an unemployment insurance debut as a song-and-dance man at Atlantic City's half-packed 500 Club. Plump and 40, Barry danced stiffly, told gags, talked his way through songs, though he is no Rex Harrison, and made a brief pass at a piano. Actually, Barry need not worry about his future in TV's quiz world. This summer the major networks have unleashed no fewer than ten quiz giveaway shows to fight their way to fall billing...