Word: binges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annoying artificiality. In A Star Is Born this false note becomes precisely the true one required to make his performance in the role of actor the best since his similar job in The Royal Family. Good sequence: Maine delivering amiable insults to his sanatorium attendant-christened "Cuddles" after Bing Crosby's bull in Rhythm on the Range...
Father Divine disappeared before police could lay hands upon him. An alarm went out for his arrest, for felonious assault and "acting in concert" with three other Negroes whom police charged with stab bing Greene. For the podgy little Messiah who claims 30,000,000 followers (and has about 50,000), there then followed other misfortunes. First of these was the apostasy of his fat, capable right hand, "Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson...
Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) exhibits Bing Crosby crooning pseudo-Hawaiian ditties through a wreath to the accompaniment of innumerable hula-hulas. As Tony Marvin, he is the indolent press-agent of Imperial Pineapple, spends his time lolling on his schooner with a hillbilly called Shad Buggle (Bob Burns). One of Marvin's sporadic publicity ideas is to choose a "Pineapple Girl" who would come to Hawaii for three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails...
This mild pleasantry is as excellently suited to Bing Crosby's mild acting talents as its soft Hawaiian tunes (Momi Pele, Okolehau, Nani Ona Pua) are suited to his deep warbling. Comedy is ladled out by Martha Raye, who distorts her vast mouth and yowls, and by Bob Burns, who to get laughs uses a pig named Wafford instead of his former "Bazooka." This amiable razorback is by far the funniest member of the trio, steals the show by oinking at suitable moments, winning a blue ribbon at a dog-show, then exhibiting a most distinctive canine trait when...
...reward for making her rich & famous. As cinemaddicts are well aware, grati tude is a bad excuse for matrimony. No sooner is Marcia engaged to Nazaroff than she meets a romantic young baritone, Paul Allison (Nelson Eddy), who lives in a garret with his teacher (Herman Bing). Marcia and Paul have one happy afternoon singing duets at a Mayday festival...