Wheeler-Woolsey update: CRACKED NUTS: Another fine vehicle with an utterly absurd plot, Boris Karloff in a small role, Edna May Oliver providing fine comic relief. Insane dialogue:
Woolsey: "My sister, now there was a gal who could cook coffee. The first time, she used tea to make it, so it was no good. After that, she used cocoa, but it tasted like clam sauce, so we froze it and ate it as ice cream."
Halfway through GIRL CRAZY, and this one isn't that good so far. Gershwin songs are abused as throwaways. "I've got Rhythm" is sung at lightning speed and out of tune by Kitty Kelly. A few years ago, my gal was in a production of CRAZY FOR YOU, the transformed version of this, using much of the same Gershwin music.
