Word: technicolorful
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...Astaire and Ginger Rogers) is delightful to listen to because of such Jerome Kern songs as Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, I Won't Dance and the title tune. The picture is also pleasant to look at with a 15-minute fashion finale featuring startling Adrian creations in Technicolor...
...technicolor movie shows the 'Cliffedweller in classes, in college activities, on dates with Harvard men, and in the dormitories. The Annex administration plans to use the movie to show to future 'Cliffe hopefuls all over the country...
Once having attained this blissful state, you can relax and enjoy some spectacular photography of the traditional Technicolor Western stripe and a couple of excellent individual sequences. Particularly impressive is a night cattle stampede which achieves some terrifying effects by the simple expedient of letting the cattle charge the cameraman...
Skirts Ahoy! (M-G-M), a musical about the U.S. Navy's WAVES, might just as well have been titled Encores Aweigh. The film follows three sailorettes through boot camp, where the activities seem to consist mostly of swimming, singing and dancing in Technicolor. Esther Williams is a spoiled society girl who left her bridegroom languishing at the altar; red-haired Joan Evans is a small-town girl who was stood up at her wedding; blonde Vivian Elaine is a salesgirl with a Brooklyn accent...
Just about the only thing missing from this marshmallow melange of Technicolor, tunes, slapstick and sentiment is Clifton Webb, the original Pa Gilbreth, who passed on in Cheaper by the Dozen. In Belles, Webb is seen only in a brief flashback from the earlier film. Unfortunately, he and his acid personality could not be around for the rest of the movie to help counteract the saccharin goings...