Word: wooley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this reminds you of "The Pied Piper", only no Monty Wooley to lighten refugee burdens, don't say you weren't warned. Laraine Day and Robert Young can't seem to do much about it, and "Margaret" is only wistfully effective. For married men and sugared sentimentalists only. P.S. The journey is across Europe, of course...
...Monty Wooley is funny because he throws rocks at little children; Dorothy Parker is funny because she didn't go to Vassar; but Bob Hope is funny because everything he says or does or thinks turns out to be a boomerang, with him at the gag end. In Sam Goldwyn's latest celluloid, Hope has Leonard (Flyman Keplan) Ross' script to play with, and it turns out to be much more spontaneous any of the slightly forced travelogue series...
...prim New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March) ran afoul of a witch (Veronica Lake) in a hayloft and had her and her supernatural father (Cecil Kellaway) burned alive and buried, for safekeeping, under the roots of an oak. The doomed witch cursed him and his male issue with disaster in love. The curse holds better & better in 1770, 1861, and 1904 (Fredric March, Fredric March and Fredric March). It looks even more propitious when, on a stormy night in 1942, lightning rives the oak and sets father and daughter at liberty once more, as a talkative pair of fumes...
Still another New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March), a candidate for Governor, is about to marry still another shrew (Susan Hayward). The witch promptly embodies herself as Miss Lake, nude in the obscuring smoke of a hotel fire, and sets about hexing Wooley into hopeless love with her. Though she wears his pajamas, gets into his bed, makes a shambles of his wedding, calls her father into fleshly form to help, drives Best Man Robert Benchley half-witted, and witches Wooley first out of, then into, the Governorship, she makes little amatory headway until she brews a love philtre. Unluckily...
...Monty Wooley, former Yale professor-turned-actor, proves again that it's only a Yale man who will accept an invitation for dinner and stay for six weeks. He is superb as Sheridan Whiteside, the bearded book of Bartlett's Nasty Quotations, who is this country's greatest argument for mercy killing. Bette Davis, pleasingly different without a neurosis or two to keep her company, plays the role of his long-suffering and fast-talking secretary with sparkle and deftness. And Reginald Gardner is more like Noel Coward than Noel Coward himself...