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...Paris circulation office is adding a list of U.S. subscribers who will read the Atlantic Edition while summering in Europe. But most of that edition's vacation changes are for its regular readers in European cities, now headed for the French Riviera and Italy...
...Riviera. Danny Kaye plays a double role in a cinemusical whose laughs, songs and dances sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor (TIME...
...Riviera. Danny Kaye plays a double role in a cinemusical whose laughs, songs and dances sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor (TIME...
Kaye, who is mimic, comic, dancer and singer, seems to have too many talents to play just one part per movie (other films in which he had multiple identities: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man). In Riviera, he is a delight in all his roles. As the French ladykiller, he plays straight with just the right elegant swagger. As the American, he clowns and clogs through impersonations of Maurice Chevalier, Carmen Miranda, a kilted Scot, a puppet, a Spanish dancer and, of course, the fashionable Frenchman...
...movie reinforces Kaye with four clever, bouncy songs by his wife Sylvia Fine, good-looking girls in fetching costumes, and skilled dancers in sensuous routines (by Choreographer Jack Cole). Together, under Walter Lang's smooth direction, they make On the Riviera the best cinemusical since 1949's On the Town...