MOLLY
(Paramount) HE Goldbergs are an American radio and television family, whose life resembles that of Fred and Maggie Everybody. Their adventures have also appeared during the past 21 years in comic strips, in vaudeville, and on the legitimate theatre. The family matriarch, Molly, is a plump, generous, neighbourly busy-body who murders the English language as cheerfully as she tries ‘to rearrange other people’s lives. The result is a humorous and_ sentimental film which is a little better than the average soap-opera. The part of Molly is played by the author and chief radio performer of the series, Gertrude Berg, who demonstrates the equanimity and authority presumably achieved in thousands of episodes. The plot develops from a number of thinly-related incidents which. betray their radio origin, into the story of an old. friend of the family and his young fiancée, a handsome adult education lecturer in music; and a middle-aged widow. The dialogue is full of vintage jokes such as "New York is a suburb of the Bronx," and malapropisms like "A man shouldn’t be hurt in the middle ages," or-the order which Molly gives the new maid at dinner time-"Mildred, you will please pass out."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 629, 20 July 1951, Page 19
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196MOLLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 629, 20 July 1951, Page 19
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