THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS
(20th Century Fox-CinemaScope) "THE new CinemaScope musical is a big, noisy, colourful affair about two show people (Ethel’ Merman and Dan Dailey), their children (Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O’Connor) and one or two others, including a dumb but up and coming blonde played by Marilyn Monroe. Its brightest light for me was Mr. O'Connor, a first-class dancer and, on the screen at least. a most likeable person. The film has some entertaining and amusing passages, but I find it hard to recgll them after sitting face to face with Mr. Ray and Miss Monroe at a distance of only about 20 feet. This was my first encounter with Mr. Ray at the Movies, and I found him off-stage a not unlikeable youngster. But let him open his mouth, waggle his jaw, close his eyes and wave his arms about and I go glassyeyed with fascinated but uncomprehending and, indeed, incredulous horror. What is it about this astonishing . act that some women at least apparently find exciting? I’m curious. I hope I may be more easily forgiven for saying this when I add that apart from having a man’s normal reaction to a body as shapely as Miss Monroe’s I found her a little easier to understand. She can go through the motions of a sexy song and dance piece all right, but unfortinately this sort of thing demands rather more than that, and the best she can do in her supposedly most torrid number isn’t much better than burlesque. Or is the joke on me? :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 18
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263THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 18
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