Films

July, 1956

Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser is said to have worked five years turning Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted into a musical called The Most Happy Fella. Mr. Loesser apparently didn't quite know what he wanted, for Fella has too much of too many things. There are 33 songs, including a pastoral choral hymn to the summer night that sounds akin to the scythe song in Cavalleria Rusticana, plus some snappy items like Standing on the Corner. But why look for unity of conception and purpose? For...