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...among the finest ever seen in a musical. The cast is capable, especially Celeste Holm, whose comic touch is deft, and Joseph Buloff, whose comic touch is broad. Lee Dixon is fairly well known, but he is distinctly handicapped by lack of material and his resemblance to Red Skelton...
...fight for custody of her five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife but would continue as his manager and gagwriter, said: "It had to be one or the other...
...clock the Statue of Liberty stepped off her pedestal and went to Manhattan's RCA building with Orson Welles. There, for two hours, she listened to Edward G. Robinson, Jane Cowl, Bob Burns, Jack Pearl, Red Skelton, Fanny Brice, Amos 'n' Andy and other comedians and actors snarl at the Axis, repeat the tales of U.S. heroes, past & present. Some heroes spoke for themselves, by short wave, from England, Hawaii, the Canal Zone...
Despite the tedious script (which fails to provide Comic Red Skelton with any comedy at all) and a pox of poor direction (e.g., composing a hit tune in about two minutes flat), the picture has some lively moments: the dead-pan vocalizing of frightened Virginia O'Brien, the up-from-the-jungle hoofing of the Berry Brothers, and the nostalgia of the old sweet Gershwin songs...
...present Edna Skelton's husband (whose adopted coat of arms is a redheaded skull and crossbones) is handsomely repaying his wife's loving care. Solidly bolted to the M.G.M. payroll for $1,500 weekly, he has finished Lady Be Good, is now making another musical, Panama Hattie. Although his oldtime medicine-show manners (telling stories at the top of his voice, howling, gesturing violently) occasionally get him out of line, Edna tempers his healthy conceit. Seldom without an unlighted cigar in his mouth or hand, he neither smokes nor drinks. He makes a rule of never answering...