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The Pajama Game Series: All That Fosse Director: Stanley Donen & George Abbott, Country: USA, Release: 1957, Runtime: 101 Studio Technicolor Print “Stanley Donen is surely the master (major or minor) of the musical? The Pajama Game exists to prove it. ‘She’ is the trade union delegate in a pajama factory in which ‘he’ is a management executive. ‘It’ is the first left-wing operetta, quite skillfully filmed, for Donen sticks to the Broadway conventions but pushes them to their utmost limits….The picnic sequence, for instance, with its marvelous, frenzied tempo, surpasses anything of the kind that has been done….Donen has not hesitated to go to the point of going too far––brilliantly abetted…by Robert Fosse on the one hand, and on the other by Harry Stradling, who has managed to coax a maximum of bright and graceful effects from the austere Warnercolor, juggling with red lipstick, blue jeans, green grass, yellow flags, white skirts, to compose a wild and ravishing kaleidoscope.”––Jean-Luc Godard We couldn’t have said it better. With Doris Day as “she” and John Raitt as “he,” and the wonderful Carol Haney. Let it be noted that Donen’s co-director was none other than the venerable George Abbott.

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