The Boston Globe, September 24th, 1989
Busby Berkeley's "The Gang's All Here" (1943) is camp heaven, the apotheosis of excess, a beaut, a hoot. The Technicolor is psychedelic, the routines surrealistic, especially "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat," the production number Berkeley concocted for Carmen Miranda. Does the banana xylophone top the artichoke chorus girls? Or does the pathway of giant strawberries down which Miranda prances outdo them both? Alice Faye's polka-dot ballet is eye-popping, too. Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Eugene Pallete and Phil Baker are among the period stalwarts providing support. And in a...
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