Word: slapsticker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action that makes "They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomime. No. Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They...
...foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
This is more in the way of forewarning that "George Washington Slept Here" will either send you in the aisles or up them, for this Jack Benny-Ann Sheridan slapstick does not start its run at the Met until tomorrow. It made the rounds on Broadway during the Christmas vacation and has since played the neighborhood circuit around New York...
...feel like roaring at city-bred Benny and staring at well-built Ann Sheridan; his antique-loving wife, if you can stand several lengthy reels of people falling through roofs and down wells, go over and get a jump on those blue books blues. But if you regard slapstick as pure corn, and rug-eating dogs and thunderstorms in rickety houses as just too far-fetched, don't bother yourself with this feature...
Last October Funnypaper Artist Al Capp turned his popular Li'l Abner, published in over 600 papers and top-flight among comic strips, into a three-week slapstick parody of Margaret Mitchell's famed best-seller Gone With The Wind (he called it Gone Wif the Wind). Said Capp: "I really went to town. It was swell...