Word: treacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is fast-moving light comedy with no weak characters to slow the pace. Roland Young brings horn-rimmed Caspar Milquetoast to life as he meekly submits to buxom Bostonian Ethel Marder--who acts a fluttery matron of social parts. And the inevitable fish-eyed English butler, Arthur Treacher, chills the drinks with a glance. The technicolor charity ball approaches the photography of GWTW; versatile Anna Neagle, who dances, sings, and acts with equal ability, sets a high mark for other screen beauties to aim at. This movie is a guaranteed cure for blue book blues...
...pleasant entertainment, as airy and filmy as the gowns in which pert Upholsterer's Apprentice Neagle dances her way into the heart of Madame Lucy (Ray Milland), the masculine modiste who employs and marries her. There are well-tailored performances by Roland Young, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher. Cinemactress Neagle sings charmingly, dances delightfully, is saucy, dainty, indubitably youthful...