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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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New Faces of 1952,
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One of my favourite films, it was lifted directly from the Broadway smash hit. I've waited long years for its release. An early Cinemeascope film, it exploited the increased width of field best seen in the full cast production numbers. This show launched several careers. Robert Clary went on principally to Hogan's Heroes. Ronny Graham appeared in several TV sitcoms and Mel Brooks movies. (Mel was a co-writer of the sketches in this show.) Paul Lynde made several comedy appearances as well as TV sitcoms and his own TV show. Alice Ghostley also went into TV sitcoms and movies, most notably "Grease". One of the revue's songs, "Guess who I saw today?", was delivered in a deadpan fashion but was to be picked up years later by Nancy Wilson who turned it into a stunning torch song. For me the star of the show was the then newly-discovered Eartha Kitt. She sings "Santa Baby", "Uska Dara", "C'est si bon" and the showstopper "Monotonous" which shows us why Orson Welles labelled her the sexiest woman on the planet. This DVD has been lifted directly from a mediocre film print with patchy colour, splices and some image and sound damage. Still, for me, better than no release at all.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Some old faces in NEW FACES,
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Paul Lynde and Alice Ghostley ("Bewitched"), Robert Clary ("Hogan's Heroes"), Carol Lawrence and especially Eartha Kitt all made their initial impressions in this classic revue first on Broadway in 1952. Highlights include Ghostley, Lynde and Ronny Graham in a spoof of the Arthur Miller/Clifford Odets genre entitled "Of Fathers and Sons" written by Mel Brooks; Ghostley's solo by Sheldon Harnick, "Boston Beguine"; Lynde's self-penned parody "Trip of the Month" and the grisly/funny hoedown finale "Lizzie Borden". The lame "plot" attached to the original (which had none) is hard to sit through and some of the performers are easier to take than others. Eartha Kitt's solos reveal how little she has changed in the past 50 years, at least in persona and material. But as one of the few records of the late-era Broadway revue, this is a must-see.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Movie was wonderful But this transfer to DVD is a travesty! The color shifts from red to pink to orange without warning and certainly not to the intent of the original producers of the movie! Don't understand why this fine movie was released this way on DVD. If you loved the original movie, don't get this one. The CCM version of this DVD is exactly the same, by the way. Wait until Twentieth Century-Fox decides to put this one out on DVD (the original releasing company).
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