Word: skeltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening show set the pattern for the series: two masters-of-ceremonies (Cinemactress Anna Neagle in London, Actor Philip Merivale in Manhattan); two orchestras (Glenn Miller's A.A.F.T.C. band and the London Fire Service Orchestra) ; British comedians Flanagan & Allen v. U.S. comic Red Skelton; Irving Berlin from Bristol...
There was an abundance of talent as well as food and drink, and the program, carried along smoothly by the able efforts of master of ceremonies Skelton, was brought to a rousing strip-tease climax. Lieutenant Pradley's spirited rendition of the bare-it-all ballet was undoubtedly the hit of the evening...
...Dood It (M.G.M.) To spite a faithless fiancé, a dancing actress (Eleanor Powell) marries a man (Red Skelton) who, she believes, owns a gold mine. She kicks him out when she learns that he is really a pants-presser, grabs him back when he foils a saboteur's attempt to blow up a munitions warehouse...
...numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best...
...Most of Skelton's comedy is Bob Hope laid on with a ball bat. Red goofed up over a kiss, Red getting off lines like "I press men's pants but this is the slack season," appeals chiefly to the primordial. But now & then Skelton's broad and cheerful silliness-notably in one stretch of pantomime, upholstering himself in a false beard-comes so thick & fast that the effect is like being held down and tickled...