Word: yokum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing and production credits for the Broadway show, Li'l Abner boasts an appropriate Dogpatchy plot. After a nationwide survey, Dogpatch is declared "the most unnecessary place in these U.S.," and selected as the site of the next A-bomb test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens as the villain (Howard St. John) slinks upon the scene in the form...
...publicize the Combined Charities Drive, Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner, has prepared a special series of Yokum cartoons...
...soso. The film has moved too slowly, and Andy Griffith in his first movie role has been uneven and never quite convincing; but Patricia Neal has provided a sensitive study of what it is like to be in love with a hokum Yokum. And then the villain hits the top. He goes hog-wild, and so does Director Kazan. Instead of keeping the menace down to life size, the script permits its corn-fed psychopath to sphacelate through the U.S. social body like some malignant growth, until he actually threatens to take over the Federal Government. As the driving force...
...show is nicely cast, with Peter Palmer and Edith Adams pleasant as Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae, and Stubby Kaye and Charlotte Rae more flavorsome as Marryin' Sam and Mammy Yokum. And its best production numbers are real high points. But the distance from one high point to another is sometimes noticeably long...
...there actually "millions" of women voters who will base their affiliations on photographs of the "family group" that may inhabit the White House next year? If there are, I suggest that we elect Pappy Yokum, and install Mammy Yokum, Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae and Honest Abe in the White House. They meet every requirement: typically American, non-Ivy League and quite "natural...