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...Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience. Two lecture-goers had heard him say that, after a fall through the ice, he stripped in 40-below weather, dried his clothes with snow. The two dared him to do it again. Sir Hubert's price...
...idea of modernizing Garbo. Perhaps M.G.M. thought that, because Garbo played a captivating brand of comedy in Ninotchka two years ago, she ought to go on to slapstick. But Ninotchka was played against a dramatic background. Two-Faced Woman is neither dramatic nor funny (except for some hilarious stunt-skiing sequences); it is a trick played on a beautiful, shy, profoundly feminine actress...
Keep 'Em Flying winds Abbott & Costello round & round with a silly plot about a barnstorming stunt flier (Dick Foran), his rival (William Gargan) and a girl (Carol Bruce). The picture uses a civilian pilot training school for background, some poor songs for vocal relief, and makes noisy, big-mouthed Martha Raye play twins, which is too much of a loud thing...
...from being merely a stunt, an Adler-Draper recital is genuinely expressive and musicianly. The pair perform solos in turn-Adler with a movement from a Bach concerto, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel's Bolero, etc., and Draper with taps to a Scarlatti pastorale, a Bach fantasia, The Blue Danube waltz. When they get going together, their act is a production...
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