Word: charmless
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...also pretends to be a Swiss shoe clerk, a termite exterminator and an Australian police inspector, meanwhile seducing a wealthy old woman's beautiful companion (Camilla Sparv), who really loves him for reasons never made clear in the script. He is characterized throughout as an alley cat so charmless that one sullied female can recall nothing about him more memorable than: "He wears a truss...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...