He added: "In comic acting, to improvise effectively is quite difficult.

Terry-Thomas, who would become known for his comic acting, has an uncredited appearance as an extra in the film, playing a "man of the future."

What does hold up, though, is the comic acting.

Miss Hong is not (yet) that: her comic acting was just a little stiff, her projection of winsome charm just a little too rigid.

Aerial by nature, suspended in his light and beautiful leaps, he dazzled by his mix of comic acting and elegant dancing.

"I hear the word deadpan a lot," he said in regard to his sober style of comic acting.

Her work with them expanded to include other instrumental work and even some comic acting.

His comic acting had a sharp edge.

Mr. Stern, who steps very easily into comic acting, has no trouble kidding with Ms. McCormack as if she were his real wife.

Yet there is nothing here that exuberant dancing and comic acting cannot cure, as this first cast proved.