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...gives the role something that brassy Ethel Merman never attempted: she kindles the love story with poignancy, makes it seem something more sincere than a musicomedy plot. In a slow, sentimental number like They Say It's Wonderful, performed with breathless tenderness, she puts together the rare blend of singing and acting talent that makes lyrics carry emotion as well as melody. And, toward the end, when she bounces back into animal spirits to join Keel in Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, her strident comic style and Berlin's flamboyant duet seem to have been...
...film's failure stems mainly from a futile attempt to blend Actor Webb's amusingly smug, know-it-all characterization of Mr. Belvedere into a story intended to stir up some emotional warmth. The result is seldom comic and never moving; it leaves Webb without much material worthy of a Belvedere and the movie's would-be warmth without the kind of character that might ignite...
...Mettle. In Troy, N.Y., Justice O'Connor suspended Robert Banks's sentence for public intoxication after the defendant confessed to drinking a concoction he called "scrap iron": a blend of sherry, rye and corn liquor...
...serving up a smooth blend of Hollywood glamour and surefire drama, Lux Radio Theater has won a weekly radio audience estimated at 30 million. Last week, the tried & true Lux formula was borrowed for a new television series, Your Lucky Strike Theater (Mon. 9:30 p.m. E.S.T, NBC-TV), produced and narrated by Cinemactor Robert Montgomery...
...original 95 minutes of footage, the Swiss film was a diffuse blend of travelogue and art catalogue, distinguished mainly by its sensitive photography. A group of young film craftsmen-Producer Robert Snyder, Director Richard Lyford, Writer Norman Borisoff-took it apart and put it together again. Their new script uses a tighter story continuity, thumbnail art critiques, a telling musical score and a narration spoken by Fredric March...