Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Story of the Blues (Delia Reese with Sy Oliver and his orchestra; Jubilee). Songstress Reese is the victim of a saccharine script of interpolated commentary ("You're gonna hear the truth, 'cause that's all the blues is"). But when she is allowed to sing, as in Empty Bed Blues, she belts out some familiar and gutty reflections: "Let me warn you/If you've gotcha some good lovin'/Don't be a fool and go and spread the news...
...Sample script, quoted in court...
...convenient quagmire, all set to snicker as he sinks, but Actor Boyd keeps his chin up. Meanwhile, back at the village, Susan is realizing how wrong she has been about her husband. All those horrible things he did to her were not really horrible at all, the script says, because the poor fellow had an unhappy childhood. Tortured with remorse, Susan turns her head away. "Would you mind leaving me alone?" she murmurs hoarsely. It's a question that deserves an answer...
...partnership. The hitch comes when he realizes that in advancing his worldly status, he has neglected his spiritual state. For a moment there, it looks as if the picture is going to make an honest if not very original point. But before anybody can say Fish House Punch, the script gives the hero a splendid opportunity to save his soul without losing any money...
...always in the winner's circle. Jerome Robbins' dance spoofs are designed to show how funny-awful vaudeville was, and by sheer glut and garishness turn pretty gaudy-awful themselves. A Mermanly try at playing up Mama's spunk and jollifying her sadism fails when the script itself belatedly acknowledges that Mama is a bundle of neuroses and no fun to be with. Sandra Church's Louise is poignant and luminous as she works free of sister's shadow and mother's wing...