Word: slippers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slight where it ought to be airy. Perhaps it needs a born pastry cook like Molnar, with his delicately browned, bite-sized ironies and his lightly philosophic macaroons. Perhaps it needs a more pervasive verve. Perhaps it only needs a wicked fairy, or a fuming stepsister, or a missing slipper. But for all its many graces, it is a touch unsatisfying...
...director "must not bore the people involved. And the biggest bore is waste of time. The director should be scrupulously punctual himself, and insist on it from everybody else. If Sir Lawrence Olivier is late, down with his pants and give him six of the best with your slipper...
...guess of 107 million, was probably the largest in the history of entertainment. The show did nothing else to make history, though it made 90 minutes pass prettily and smoothly. Sweet-voiced Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews fitted the heroine's role as if it were a glass slipper. The hero of the evening was Composer Richard (Oklahoma!, The King and I) Rodgers, who even imitating Richard Rodgers gives a better imitation than anyone else. At least two songs-Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? and Ten Minutes Ago-had the lilt to last...
Just then a pained cry floated out of the plywood-and-canvas palace garden. "Oh God, Julie, your foot's too big; that damn glass slipper fits everyone in the cast...
...Iron Petticoat (MGM) is practically a remake of the old Greta Garbo-Melvyn Douglas comedy about how Lenin's glass-of-water theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force...