Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisps of chin whiskers. Robert Coote is an unusually funny Roderigo. Welles, with his wide-range voice, is more than competent though not ideal in the title role. Suzanne Cloutier's Desdemona emerges rather colorless, mostly because her part has been so greatly cut, including the whole Willow Song scene. In places, the synchronization of the speech sound track is imprecise. Nevertheless, the film well deserved its Cannes Festival Grand Prize. It will outrage the Shaksperian pedant; but it will reward those who can appreciate Welles' powerfully fascinating display of technical virtuosity and unorthodox genius...
...read too much Thomas Wolfe too young"). His show is conceived as a TV illustration of Alexander Pope's line: "The proper study of mankind is man." The shows he is proudest of: an evocation of the love poems of Emily Dickinson, a ripsnorting Moby Dick, a song-and-dance recreation of The Ballad of John Brown. Camera Three is so far above the class of most commercial evening shows that with only a fraction of the money squandered on some of them it could probably outclass itself...
...Court Jester (Dena; Paramount) features Danny Kaye, bedecked with ASCAP and belles, in a pleasantly goofy travesty of the olden daze into which Hollywood falls so often and so profitably. Danny is cast as a song-and-dance man at the court of a wicked king (Cecil Parker), but in reality Danny is nobody's fool. He is the secret agent of the Black Fox, a nobleman who hides in the forest like some robbing hood. With him hides the true king, still an infant, for whom the Black Fox plans to seize the power...
...aspidistra is a hardy house plant with stiff, glossy leaves, long a homely windowsill badge of respectability in lower-middle-class British homes, and celebrated in song by Music Hall Diva Gracie Fields (The Biggest Aspidistra in the World...
...Desert Song. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Marjorie Pattengale, suing for divorce, charged that her husband upset her by his continual singing of the same song: I Wish I Were Single Again...