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...Touch of Class. Sometimes fun. Glenda Jackson and George Segal in a film that can't decide whether to place itself in the thirties or the seventies, as far as sex roles are concerned. Jackson is a divorced English dress designer, and Segal is a confused American (aren't we all?). Charles. 2-10, every 2 hours...
Blume in Love. By Paul Mazursky, who did Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, which was a better movie. This sometimes incisive work is a tale of undying love that sends George Segal from Los Angeles to Venice in search of his divorced wife, beautiful Susan Anspach. It won't take you quite as far. Cheri...
...formula is certainly familiar, but the reaction, in this case, has unexpected impact. The husband is George Segal, by far the most deft American actor of light comedy, as he proved recently in Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love (TIME, June 25); the divorcée is Glenda Jackson, whose virtuosity and energy dazzle. Together they make an elegant pair of amorous antagonists, their smooth skills bringing great fun and fresh surprise to the sort of material that can always use a good professional refurbishing...
...script is modeled closely on the high-energy comedies of the '30s and '40s. Jackson's Vicki Allessio is the kind of sassy, intelligent woman with a sure sense of her own vulnerability and dignity that Katharine Hepburn played so well. Segal's Steven Blackburn is a role that Cary Grant both defined and epitomized-a man of charm, still susceptible to being tongue-tied and flummoxed by the right woman...
...more time for comedy than resolution, and A Touch of Class ends predictably, with a dash of prefabricated melancholy. Melvin Frank's direction, like the script he wrote with Jack Rose, was apparently devised to give his actors maximum room to romp. A wise choice, since Jackson and Segal are the ones with most of the real style and-yes-class...