Word: bordoni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irene Bordoni, super-Frenchy musicomedy veteran (Hitchy Koo, Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...
...still fresh and vigorous, even though the show opened in New York more than two years ago. You may be familiar with Irving Berlin's slick music, but it still rings bells. And the indomitable team of William Gaxton and Victor Moore, assisted by Vera Zorina and Irene Bordoni, troupe with spontaneous humour through the riotous plot. Maybe they did make a movie of it with Bob Hope (and if your think he's a good, watch Gaxton slip on a girdle), but "Louisiana Purchase" is basically and essentially one of the top examples of that classic form, the American...
...Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs in the end, though; the investigation is called off, and Loganberry remains a frustrated Republican Presidential candidate, "with a slight chance...
Zorina of the marvelous figure can still dance, and Irene Bordoni can still wink, but next to Victor Moore, the most ingratiating performer is dark, magnetic Newcomer Carol Bruce, who knows how to put a song and herself over at the same time. Victor Moore, of course, is one of those things like Strauss waltzes and wire-haired terrier puppies that only a confirmed sourpuss could dislike. His Senator Loganberry takes rank with his Ambassador Goodhue and his Vice President Throttlebottom. A dazed, roly-poly babe-in-the-wood, he is probably surprised that he casts a reflection...
...Irving Berlin; produced by B. G. De Sylva) was the first show in at least three years to charge $8.80 on opening night. In return it offered a rich program:, Irving Berlin music, a Morrie Ryskind book, Balanchine ballets, such headliners as Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Billy Gaxton, Irene Bordoni. Good they all were, but at $7.70 or even $6.60 their efforts would not have come under the head of sweated labor...