Word: sillier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Show Girl, Actress Channing is at her best doing what first won her praise on Broadway: she spoofs the sillier musicomedies of the '20s till every inanity glitters, and with a magic that in the very act of murdering old musicals can bring them back to life. Today's grim musical dramas are not as funny targets, nor has Carol as fine a touch for them, but her Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker...