Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from Misses Walker and Essen, the cast includes Jackie Gleason, Carol Bruce, Hank Ladd, and Johnny Coy, all of whom possess a variety of entertaining talents. "Along Fifth Avenue" is just one more of those uneven affairs; Nancy Walker is responsible for what smooth, bright spots there are, but the rest of its is not unpleasant...
Toland's subtle transition shots make the jumps seem as smooth as cold cream. Sample: in the '90s, Niven's older sister (Jayne Meadows) stands in the hallway of their house holding a large brass key. He has just sworn never to touch it again (or enter the house) as long as she lives. The camera narrows its focus to the key; the key turns in a lock-in the hand of Niven's grandniece (Evelyn Keyes) half a century later...
...theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague eye, the trick shot of all outdoors whirling round & round, the heart beating an audible tom-tom, the psychiatrist with his smooth sofa-side manner...
...Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth voice out amongst the customers, singing in a style like a kazoo. In four other cities, new-style nightclubs had opened, with a no-dancing policy, and with bleachers for serious listening...
...Fish, 46, president of Fish Engineering Corp., who had built the Tennessee Gas Transmission pipeline, and Claude A. Williams, an .unsuccessful bidder for the Government's Big Inch. Once they had steered their Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. past the Federal Power Commission in Washington, the rest was smooth sailing...