Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theatrical season has been marked by a paucity of musical comedies and as great a paucity, in those which have appeared, of the usual cheap superficiality and bad taste that have become almost a trademark of this particular form of the American stage. Whatever precedent may have been set by "The Day Before Spring," and "Billion Dollar Baby," however, has been shattered by "Nelly...
This was whopping praise, in a land where Shakespeare is almost a trade and understatement almost a trademark. The target was 43-year-old Actor Ralph Richardson in the Old Vic's smash revival of Henry IV, with Sybil Thorndike and Laurence Olivier in supporting roles...
Most striking set: a dream sequence designed by Surrealist Salvador Dali. Notable Hitchcock trademark: a comic bit part (Wallace Ford as a traveling salesman from Pittsburgh) whose laconic leering is almost as memorable as the two old-school cricketers of Night Train and The Lady Vanishes...
Although Americans may wonder why (Bob Hope, who was born in England, confesses: "It's too fast for me"), ITMA doubles up its British listeners. Puns like "Farewell to the night shifts of Dover" or "the lease lend the soonest mended" are a Handley trademark. So are topical quips like "I haven't laughed so much since Errol Flynn captured Burma." ITMA's rapid-fire cacophony of explosions, whistles, popguns, yawps, quacks and trambells draws enthusiastic letters from Continental listeners, who can't understand English, but find the sound effects screamingly funny...
Blithe Spirit (United Artists) is as light-spun and unsubstantial as a cornucopia full of cotton candy. For people who like that kind of thing, it will be just as tasty. It is 99.9% Noel Coward, with his trademark of fashionably airy dialogue on every frame of film...