Word: wynn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere the talents of Victor Moore, Kathryn Grayson, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Lena Home peep through the shuffle and bustle. The whole is well-buttressed, as the Master would surely have it, with the Technicolored verities of the half-naked female form...
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn; TIME...
...Hollywood-manufactured sequel to See Here, Private Hargrove, but it happens to be funnier than the original. The war, as it was fought by eager, incompetent Corporal Hargrove (Robert Walker) and cynical con-man Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), bears only a casual scenic resemblance to real war. The France they trudge through is a mythical landscape. But Hargrove and Mulvehill seem far more real than many of the screen's dead-earnest soldier heroes...
...given Corwin the green light for a sustaining summer series. Furthermore, instead of a late-night spot to which such worthy projects are usually relegated, CBS assigned Corwin to the desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening shows...
...photography ranks with Henry Luce's best; its acting is natural; its humor (James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) is appealing; it does not run to absurd lengths. Yet "The Clock" drags, mostly because it is too full of little climaxes and its big climax is poorly timed. What's worse, Leo roars too loudly and the MGM-Sigmund Romberg-Reader's Digest flavor is too strong. And millions of people will love...