"...Cary Grant delivers some sardonic wisecracks very well..."
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| With Jayne Mansfield. |
Kiss Them For Me - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"Kiss Them For Me, coincidentally enough, is also about some military men intent on staging a party. The party givers in this case are three naval aviators who arrive in wartime San Francisco determined to devote all their brief French leave from a carrier to wine, women and song.
The color-and-CinemaScope movie is based on a novel written during World War II and made into a (not very successful) play soon after that.
By 1957, its attitudes are curiously dated. For one example, the enemy seems to be the civilian population. For another, the fliers behave alternately like post-adolescent Peck's Bad Boys and like swashbuckling heroes with equally juvenile motivation. Though Cary Grant delivers some sardonic wisecracks very well, he seems a little old to be acting so irresponsibly.
The picture also has leading-woman trouble. Fashion model Suzy Parker, who plays the enigmatic heroine, is lovely to look at but can't act; while director Stanley Donen has allowed Jayne Mansfield, in the role that was Judy Holliday's stepping stone to fame, to be broadly and unamusingly vulgar."
- Moira Walsh, America
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| New Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36 - Number 63 - Kiss Them For Me (Lobby Card Style) |
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