Word: bobbysock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waves (Paramount), a musical salute to the women of the Navy, is a minor but pleasant enough vehicle for reliable Bing Crosby and rambunctious Betty Hutton. Mr. Crosby, in a heroic departure from character, plays a crooner whose life is made miserable by the squeals and faints of the bobbysock babies. Miss Hutton plays the double role of a girl who is old enough to know better but doesn't, and her twin sister who does. As the former she is, as usual, endearingly stentorian; as the latter she is startlingly gentle and demure. Nice tunes...
Soon the check bounces. So does the bobbysock idol, who is tossed about by accelerated slapstick like a Boy Scout in a blanket. In less tumultuous moments he sings, dances, makes love simply, smiles. These accomplishments are more or less superfluous. As shuddering exhibitors remember from his first picture, Sinatra's name on the marquee is sufficient to guarantee lipsticky posters on the outside, moaning galleryites within...
...William Penn. There followed parades, gifts, interminable speeches by civic officials, a night appearance in a local park with 10,000 fans pushing through police lines, a tour of the city in an open Packard. From the sidelines the hero could hear shrieking girls awarding the ultimate in bobbysock tributes: "He's nicer than Frankie...
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