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Thursday, May 15, 2008

CHARLEY’S AUNT (1942)


This inexplicably enjoyable version of the old farce really shouldn’t work at all. Archie Mayo ’s megging had become positively geriatric, the flat lighting makes the entire cast look vaguely ill, the clowning is too broad by half and who is going to believe Jack Benny (pushing fifty) as a student at Oxford. No matter. Brandon Thomas’s indestructible play, imagine THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST meets SOME LIKE IT HOT, starts working its magic from the moment Benny gets into his dress. One big sequence at a formal dinner hangs fire, but just about everything else remains hilarious.

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