Word: wynn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except in the City of Brotherly Love--but the ties of birth and position hold her husband home and create a barrier between them. So Kitty goes out on her own, has a divorce and a baby, meets young doctor James Craig who offers her marriage and security. Then Wynn Stratford VI, remarried but disillusioned, asks her to come back to him. Her heart says "yes" but her head says "no," and the stream of consciousness technique by which the story is told in the first person gives surprisingly strong dramatic punch to this dilemma. This nigh-to-perfect filming...
...authors. They say that George sat through the first-night glum as an owl. His wife can make up the situations, but she just doesn't have the lines to go with them. The whole play is strained; at times it gets downright tedious. But Keenan Wynn's playing is very much alive; and the rest of the cast is commendable. At the curtain you feel they have a right to cry "Author, author." They do need...
...presence of Joe Cook means that the two foremost gadget comedians in the business are on Broadway. The other: Ed Wynn of Boys and Girls Together. If Wynn is a department store of inane machinery, Cook is a Montgomery Ward. He finally appears in a neon-lighted bandmaster's uniform to conduct the 1941 version of his famed Fuller Construction Symphony Orchestra, in which a double hanging leads by various roundabout mechanics to the tinkling of a drummer's triangle...
Boys and Girls Together (Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Jack Yellen & Irving Kahal; produced by Ed Wynn). The late great Florenz Ziegfeld was not overly popular with comics. He was firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters...
...attached to a velocipede arrangement that enables him to pedal Jane Pickens, his diva, about to the rhythm of the jaunty air Catsup on the Moon. His giggle is infectious, his puns hilarious and he has the Dancing De Marcos to add pace to his show. But not even Wynn's enormous talent can prevent the diligence of his comic efforts from appearing occasionally somewhat strained...