Word: bellhopping
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...Over Broadway," is a Saroyanesque romance-a drama of strange but real little folk lost in the depths of the big city. The characters are a grifter, a cafe entertainer, a drunken Pulitzer Prize playwright, and a thief, all thrown together by accident. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. as the ex-bellhop sucker-plucker and Rita Hayworth as the girl who graduated from the gutter give convincing performances in the romantic leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your...
...Manhattan, a visitor checking out of the Woodstock Hotel left his alarm clock. When a bellhop reminded him of the clock, he said: "I know, but I'd rather buy a new clock than take a chance on arousing the suspicion that a ticking suitcase arouses these days...
...their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...
...dreams he is a bellhop in the hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely...
...Hollywood type. To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford. But all the while Robert Montgomery wanted to be a gangster. Much against its better judgment his studio at last let him play a sneering homicidal bellhop in Night Must Fall. Cinemactor Montgomery had a high old time murdering Dame May Whitty, and critics thought it was pretty good too. But the U. S. cinemasses, who can spot a phony on the screen as quickly as on the street, stayed away from the box office. They thought Robert...