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- I Married An Angel
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- (May 23, 1938)
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- The plot of I Married An Angel has to do with Count Willy
- Palaffi (Dennis King), a Budapest banker who, swearing he will
- marry nothing less than an angel, is forthwith confronted by one
- (Vera Zorina), wings and all. They wed, but the bride's
- celestial habit of blurting out the truth stirs up a lot of
- trouble with the groom's friends and depositors.
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- For an act and a half, I Married An Angel pins all its hopes
- on being fluffy, fleecy, feathery swansdown. And fluffy, fleecy,
- feathery indeed is Actress Zorina with her pale face, charming
- figure, dainty dancing and foolproof accent. In the same mood
- are at least two of Composer Rodgers' best tunes; I Married An
- Angel (a natural for the hurdy-gurdies) and Spring Is Here.
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- In the middle of Act II, Producer Wilman suddenly tosses
- Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up
- Braodway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush
- in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result
- wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque
- on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At
- the Roxy Music Hall:
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- Where they change the lights a million times a minute.
- Where the stage goes up and down when they begin it, It's
- a wonder Mrs. Roosevelt isn't in it At the Roxy Music Hall.
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