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Wonder Man

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Starring (View all)
Danny Kaye Danny Kaye
Edwin Dingle / Buzzy Bellew
Virginia Mayo Virginia Mayo
Ellen Shanley
Vera-Ellen Vera-Ellen
Midge Mallon
Donald Woods Donald Woods
Monte Rossen
S.Z. Sakall S.Z. Sakall
Schmidt
Steve Cochran Steve Cochran
Ten Grand Jackson


Written by
Don Hartman Don Hartman
(screenplay)
Melville Shavelson Melville Shavelson
(screenplay) and


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Wonder Man

3 years, 11 months ago at Apr 11 18:16
Danny Kaye pulls double-duty in Wonder Man playing twins, one a nebbish type and the other a nightclub sensation that runs afoul of some gangsters. The ghost of the extrovert possesses the nerd and causes all sorts of shenanigans along the way. Of course, there’s a love triangle adject plotline involving Virginia Mayo, Kaye’s frequent object of affection, and Vera-Ellen. If Up in Arms was thin... read more
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Danny Kaye turns in an exuberant double performance as a polar-opposite pair of identical twins in this musical comedy. Timid librarian Edwin Dingle has an extroverted twin brother, nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew. After Buzzy witnesses a gangland shooting, he gets rubbed out by mob boss Ten-Grand Jackson. Before long, Edwin is visited by Buzzy’s ghost, who persuades his bookish brother to help bring Jackson to justice. Poor Edwin finds himself possessed by his brother’s sportive spirit, causing no end of confusion for Edwin’s demure lady friend Ellen Shanley and Buzzy’s more outgoing girlfriend, dancer Midge Mallon.
Release date: 9 October 1945
UPC: 026359066320
Tags: 1945 (2), Comedy (1), Fantasy (1), Gangster (1), Musical (1), 1940's (1), Cannes (1), 40's (1)
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Wonder Man

“Danny Kaye pulls double-duty in Wonder Man playing twins, one a nebbish type and the other a nightclub sensation that runs afoul of some gangsters. The ghost of the extrovert possesses the nerd and causes all sorts of shenanigans along the way. Of course, there’s a love triangle adject plotline involving Virginia Mayo, Kaye’s frequent object of affection, and Vera-Ellen. If Up in Arms was thin but entertaining, then Wonder Man is just thin. It’s as though they just told Kaye to go manic in his performance and left it at that. This is just as messy a movie as several of his Samuel Goldwyn films of the era, lots of grinding the plot to a halt to throw out the Goldwyn Girls or have Kaye do one of his patter-songs, but there’s a relative lack of buoyancy here. It’s fine but nothing m” read more

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