Word: stork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ingenious, highly imaginative product of a money-making little tribe: the Broadway columnists. Last week, with a column to do it in, he gave his own parodic version of what thousands read under the impression that they are getting the inside dope, hot from Lindy's and the Stork Club...
George F. Stork...
...Stork Club (Paramount) would be just another slightly silly cinemusical if it were not for a super-amiable performance by Barry Fitzgerald and a super-dynamic one by Betty Hutton. Fitzgerald has a chance to play rich and poor, stingy and generous, angry, whimsical, sour and wistful. Betty Hutton is permitted to make funny faces, wear a bathing suit and imitate the voice of Walter Winchell. Her songs are undistinguished but her uninhibited way of putting them over is an eclectic mixture of Harlem and Bali, with a shout from the heyday of Ethel Merman and a gesture from...
...late Robert Benchley makes a genial appearance in the film, but unhappily his lines were provided by someone less talented than Benchley at writing a Benchley role. The Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (played by Bill Goodwin) should be gratified by his screen portrait: he is pictured as handsome, witty, kindly, generous to a fault and extravagantly admired by all his own employes as well as by cafe society at large...
...Stork Club is no substitute for a visit to a night club. But it is a good way to see: 1) what Barry Fitzgerald can do with even a thin role, and 2) how Betty Hutton can almost put over a hopeless lyric...