Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost just about everything but his sense of humor; an eccentric, kilt-clad dame (Margaret Rutherford), who is bent on establishing the earl as the rightful sovereign of Scotland; a National Coal Board man (Brian Oulton), who is assigned to commandeer the castle as a hostel for miners. The plot is thickened by a wealthy American widow (Barbara Kelly), who is out to buy the castle, and by a pretty blonde ghost named Ermyntrude (Patricia Dainton), who was the mistress of the earl's grandfather...
...month withdrew their display advertisements from Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and Sunday Express. "We're not going to spend another goddam penny," an Express official was told, "until you change your critics." Chief target was the Evening Standard's Milton Shulman, who recently joshed the plot of Affair in Trinidad (which contains some schemers fiddling with the V-2 rocket): "Launched from bases in the Caribbean, [the V2] could destroy most of the major centers in the United States and presumably, with any luck, Hollywood." Also on Hollywood's list was the Sunday Graphic...
...good glimpses of behind-the-scenes vaudeville activities. It also gives Dean Martin a chance to croon some pleasant tunes (With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Yours) of the two-a-day vaudeville era. But The Stooge is at its best when it ditches its plot and gives toothy Comic Lewis a chance at his uninhibited mugging, e.g., bashfully kissing a girl for the first time, getting impossibly drunk, wrestling with a fold-up washbasin in a railroad sleeping...
Meet Me at the Fair (Universal-International) spins a plot that is as insubstantial and as highly colored as cotton candy. It is a sentimental tale of a runaway orphan (Chet Allen), a singing medicine man (Dan Dailey) and a beautiful welfare worker (Diana Lynn). By the time the picture has run its course, the medicine man and welfare worker, who are about to be married, have adopted the orphan and his dog, and have also put to rout a pack of crooked politicians responsible for lamentable conditions at the orphanage. Spotting this confection at intervals are some pleasant...
...from such old bellringers as Frank Slaughter, F. Van Wyck Mason, James Street and Rosamond Marshall (see below). And in March, famed Violinist Albert Spalding will fiddle his way into the act with, his publishers announce, "an absorbing and richly patterned evocation of a gaudy era of passion and plot, deceit and beauty." Author Spalding's hero: an 18th century Italian violinist who loved dangerously...