Word: vernuil
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...offers not only a variety of situations, but a great diversity in the types of humor which it employs. Sometimes the situations themselves are hysterical, but usually they are only mildly whimsical, with Fernandel himself supplying what humor there is. Throughout there is a very casual air; Director Henri Vernuil makes no attempt to create a laugh-per-minute tempo, with the result that none of the humor seems forced. In fact, one often has the feeling that humor is deliberately being withheld from him. At times the audience sits, wanting to laugh at Fernandel's lugubrious countenance...
Less attractive dramatic works include Philip Barry's Second Threshold and Louis Vernuil's Affairs of State, starring Celeste Holm. (Morosco and Music Box, respectively...
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