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That Lady in Ermine. The late Ernst Lubitsch's easygoing Graustarkian spoof, with Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Technicolor and music (TIME...
Look, Ma, I'm Dancin' (music & lyrics by Hugh Martin; book by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; produced by George Abbott) hit on a bright subject for a musical: ballet. There was plenty to spotlight, spoof, and splash with color. But Look, Ma isn't quite up to the job. It has its undeniable high points; but as a whole it doesn't come...
...pictures, in the opinion of plenty of enthusiastic cinemaddicts, can lead anywhere and go on forever. Their comedy is more verbal than visual, but any kind of slapstick-one of cinema's lost arts-is rare these days. Because they fill some of the void, these loose-jointed spoof pictures at least guarantee a lot of good laughs...
...French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
Initiates may find the real meat of Bal Nègre in its elaborate ritual dances and act-long, story-crammed ballets. More casual observers may find these somewhat arty, and cotton much more to Bal Nègre's gay, stylish folk dances-and to its spoof of the ragtime and jazz cavortings of not-so-tropical climes...