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Like Dinah's drive, Dinah's rise has been more of a trajectory than a career. In two years Miss Shore has become the No. 1 female blues singer. She queens the juke boxes within an inch of Bing Crosby ("than whom," says Dinah, "there is no whomer"). Her extracurricular "honors" have piled up like ticker tape. She was "Queen" of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "Queen" of Manhattan's famed Seventh Regiment, is "Sweetheart" of more Army camps than she can remember. At Manhattan's Butlers' Ball she was named "The Girl We Wish Would Come...
Today Johnny Mercer lives in a Hollywood bungalow, tailors lyrics to fit the suavely hocketing voice of his friend Bing Crosby, rolls up between $50,000 and $85,000 a year in cinema lyric contracts and ASCAP royalties. A one-finger pianist, he does his composing with the help of Tunesmith Harold Arlen. After a two-hour stretch with Tunesmith Arlen, he usually knocks off for an afternoon of golf. Says Johnny: "If I get a good title and the first couple of lines within two hours, that's a damn good day. . . . Most of my titles and lyrics...
Sharing the male lead, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire both do polished, nonchalant, and routine jobs on parts that don't ask very much. Surprise star, blonde, pert Marjorie Reynolds, dances remarkably well, handles her role adequately, and looks like a dream. Of all the galaxy of stars which have been paraded out to fill Ginger Rogers' shoes as Astaire's dancing partner, she has the best chance of making the grade...
Holiday Inn (Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby; TIME...
Holiday Inn (Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds; TIME...