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...Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture adds Technicolor and tunes like Marshmallow Moon (already a jukebox favorite), but subtracts so much from Aaron that he turns out rusty rather than rustic...
...such oldtime songs as You Were Meant for Me, You Are My Lucky Star, and the picture's title tune,* most of them by Producer-Lyricist Freed and Composer Nacio Herb Brown. There is a delightful sequence in which Kelly dances down a puddle-filled street in a Technicolor downpour, and there are several gay take-offs on supercolossal Busby Berkeley girlie routines. But the show's biggest song & dance number is far from the best: a flossy 15-minute ballet about the Roaring Twenties that makes up in size what it lacks in sparkle...
...Lampoon-written prose, Michael Arlen's essay How to Tell a Good Movie from a Bad Movie points humorously to the fallacies in film reviews based on truisms such as: "All English movies are good movies" or "All Technicolor movies are bad movies." Mistrusting these truisms, Arlen builds his piece around his personal way of picking pictures the advice of ten-year old cousin Henry "who knows when to walk...
...American in Paris. Imaginative boy-meets-girl musical in Technicolor, with songs by George Gershwin, dances by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (TIME...
...American in Paris. Imaginative musical in Technicolor, with songs by George Gershwin, dances by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (TIME...