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...this particular movie the composing team portrayed is Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby of Tin Pan Alley fame. The stars are Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. Astaire provides the usual amount of softshoe and tap dancing at which he is still very adept, but Skelton is not as funny as usual. Since there is virtually no plot, your reaction to the film depends upon how well you like the songs and Astaire's dancing. To me, Astaire's light-footed work on the boards and his casual acting and singing make any picture he is in worth seeing...
...flits flirtatiously between a Sun Valley bandleader (Van Johnson), whom she really loves, and a millionaire playboy (John Lund). Johnson is made to work overtime as a singer and dancer, and there are specialty numbers by Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell and Connie Haines, plus an unbilled appearance by Red Skelton. By the time the last monumentally tasteless water pageant has ebbed away, it is hard to tell Sun Valley from the same...
...rival NBC, captured such longtime NBC stars as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Edgar Bergen. Last week monolithic NBC finally struck back: it proudly announced the signing of an eight-year radio & TV contract (at an estimated $3,000,000) with Peabody Award-winning Comic Groucho Marx, one of CBS' top-rated shows. Cracked Groucho: "It was a tough fight...
...Skelton (Sun. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Old show on a new network...
...Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float in a Mardi Gras parade...