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...American in Paris is a product of many talents and a triumph of teamwork. Actress Caron, a young (19) French ballet dancer discovered by Kelly, combines dancing skill with a fetching simplicity and the plump-cheeked freshness of a Renoir model. The script, by Alan Jay Lerner, bounces wittily along under the direction of Vincente Minnelli. The Gershwin score brims with a dozen of his works, some heard only in snatches, some unfamiliar, ranging from such standards as 'S Wonderful and Embraceable You to Piano Concerto in F, played by Gershwin's leading interpreter, Pianist Oscar Levant...
...share of the discredit belongs to director George Sherman, who not only kept the actors from getting off more than two sentences per minute, but also chose the cast in the first place. Nor should Gerald Drayson Adams escape lightly. We may only hope that this stilted and faltering script will be his last. Hans J. Salter's grating and ill-timed music only serves to make the tedium unbearable. The costumes are absolutely ludicrous...
...dazzling close to a very dazzling production of the Shakespeare masque. The Brattle players handled the verbal part of the script to almost anybody's satisfaction but it was their imaginative staging which really captured the opening night audience and which will probably make the play a great success...
...Affairs of State," is still on Broadway, and the two may be compared in that they are both vehicles for Hollywood stars. Unfortunately, where Celeste Holm and June Havoc have been able to carry the earlier play, the efforts of Ginger Rogers are not enough to combat the script Verneuil now offers...
Crisply directed by Robert Wise from a script by Edmund H. North, the movie is no sermon or diatribe. It makes its points with all the tang and suspense of a good adventure yarn. It has its rough spots in story-and no doubt in scientific -logic, but these are effectively smoothed over by the realism of actual Washington backgrounds, expert technical effects and the presence of such radio news commentators as Drew Pearson, Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn, chattering away in the familiar accents of crisis...