Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warner), based vaguely on the immensely successful 1924 musical No, No, Nanette, sheds a Technicolor tear for the good old days of plus fours, prohibition and the stock-market crash. The story, about a Broadway show, employs nearly every musical-comedy cliche -from romantic misunderstandings between Doris Day and radio's Gordon MacRae to pratfalls by Comic Billy De Wolfe. Every quarter-hour or so there is a big production number...
...Black Rose (20th Century-Fox] shows how Tyrone Power brought the magnetic compass, the art of papermaking and the secret of gunpowder from far-off Cathay to 13th Century England. Based on Thomas B. Costain's lush historical novel, the film bristles with research, Technicolor, 5,600 extras (not counting 500 horses and 1,000 camels), the English countryside and sun-scorched vistas of Asian deserts. On this broad canvas, however, Scripter Talbot Jennings traces a curiously skimpy design...
...improving on the female anatomy, permits a hoity-toity patroness to set him up in style as a serious painter. Then he meets Joan Caulfield, a shapely college professor with Victorian ideas. During an energetic courtship involving arrest, blackmail and academic disgrace, he melts away her inhibitions, and the Technicolor camera undrapes her hidden talents as a model. She returns the favor by stripping away his artistic pretensions...
Peggy (Universal-International) is a great waste of costly Technicolor and able actors. It sacrifices such good comedy performers as Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood to a humorless, embarrassingly juvenile farce about the efforts of a professor's daughter (Diana Lynn) to escape coronation as queen of the Rose Bowl. For colored-postcard enthusiasts who sit it out, the last reel offers some views of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses...
...Duchess of Idaho (MGM) is an Esther Williams musical, i.e., a pretty body of water surrounded by clichés. It shows plenty of the human form, mostly Swimmer Williams', against the travel-folder backdrop of Sun Valley in Technicolor. The makeshift plot stops and goes at the convenience of the songs, dances and fancy splashing...