Word: ragamuffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pepe (G.S.-Posa Films; Columbia). Cantinflas, the 49-year-old son of a Mexican mail carrier, who in Charlie Chaplin's opinion has become "the world's greatest comedian," is a shy little ragamuffin with wide-apart innocent eyes like a newborn burro's, a mouth like a long, amusing sentence, and a silly little mustache that sets it off in tiny, hairy quotation marks. From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego he is almost as popular as orange soda, and in Mexico he is the greatest national hero since Pancho Villa. His movies make millions...
...plainly just keeps The Unsinkable Molly Brown afloat is an unquenchable Tammy Grimes. Starting off, in potato-sack finery, half tomboy and half troll, she roars and soars ahead with her magically rusty vocal cords, her magically uncombed look, her meltable rock-candy hardness, now executing a slow, sneakered, ragamuffin saraband, now after a Denver fiasco ripping into an exuberant barefoot dance, now smashing a chair over a stranger's head, now reacting in Paris to her first taste of snails: "With that sauce, you could eat erasers." Thanks to her, Molly is dripping but undrowned...