Word: dumbness
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Groucho on the trio's retirement: "Our stuff is stale. So are we. . . . The fake mustache, the dumb harp player, and the little Italian who chased the ladies were funny at first. But it became harder with each picture to top the one before. To get out of the groove we have to get out of the movies...
...deaf, are dumb, are blind...
...Lady Eve" has just enough of both slap-stick and character acting to make it a super-streamlised example of the plot-dialogue comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns...
...long line of card sharks, and does a neat job of trimming Henry Fonda. The latter gives an entirely convincing picture of a man who has been up the Amazon and away from women one year too long. There will never be another actor who can be as dumb and pliable in the hands of a determined woman...
...from civilian to military life] as rapidly as possible and to lay the foundations for your successful career as a soldier." Since 1919 the hard-boiled sergeant, the bull-roaring officer have been fading from the military scene. Their replacements are officers and noncoms taught that intelligent teamwork, not dumb obedience, is what an army needs to make it hum, that enlisted soldiers must know (at least generally) the whys & wherefores of what they are told...