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...sighs, swoops and quavers his way through a pleasantly relaxed nightclub turn. Most of the songs will be new to U.S. listeners, but every so often Louvain slips in an oldie, e.g., C'est le Print emps (It Might as Well Be Spring] or Viens Plus Pres (Mama, Teach Me to Dance...
...magic stick and when he rubbed cows, cats, dogs and lambs with his stick, these animals (real sound effects) began to sing (real tape technician) songs like The Farmer in the Dell and all like that. Three to-sixes go positively daft over it, but Papa and Mama need magical first aid while the cowcophony...
...learn very quickly that the city cousin knows the real joys of bourgeois living, and we are given a sweeping view of his universe of pimps, party-dolls, and sham. In the midst of all this, the country cousin (who spends most of his time writing home to Mama) falls in love with a used beauty (Julliette Mayniel) who appears none-the-worse for wear. The impossible longings of Charles for this girl are well-portrayed, but the plot is foreshadowed to death. Charles loses the girl, flunks his exams, and dies. Both reality and destiny are against him. Paul...
After the script, the most urgent problem is casting. Marilyn Monroe has expressed interest in the part of Cecilie, and there are fond hopes of acquiring Marlon Brando for the part of Sigmund Freud. Brando, after all, made his stage debut in I Remember Mama...
...young lady is sore, it seems, because she is a French army brat and parental love is at parade rest. Papa is a cavalry colonel, more interested in charges than children, while Mama is a Spanish noblewoman too haughty for tender talk. What daughter knows about affection comes from spying on peasant maids and their trooper lovers on a slumbering military post before World War II. And what she learns of life comes from Daddy's batman, a sporting type named Killer, whose off-duty kicks come from impaling jack-lighted wildlife on the iron spikes attached...