Word: bouncer
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...taxis, pummels prostitutes, robs crooked gamblers, assaults swells in evening clothes-then suddenly discovers he is in love with still-innocent Jane. Jane runs away, hides-then suddenly discovers she loves Bill. For a while they are passionately happy together. But a blackmailer who knows that Bill killed the bouncer suddenly turns up, demands a pound a week and Jane's favors. Jane kills him. Bill gives a crooked skipper ?100 to smuggle Jane out of the country...
Page one: Bill Saunders beats up an ex-pugilist bouncer in a pub. Page two: the ex-pug is dead and Bill is chased through the streets of London. Page three: Bill breaks into a room to hide, finds there a pretty salesgirl named Jane, and spends the night with...
Frank Sinatra, teatiming at the White House at the invitation of Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan (who also brought along Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor, an ex-bouncer, and Funnyman "Rags" Ragland, an ex-burlesque comic), was kidded by the President about "the art of how to make girls faint," and came away determined to buy radio time of his own to campaign for Term IV. Observed The Voice: "My fans are not all teenagers. . . . Besides, even the 15-year-olds can influence people...
Probably Sturges's outstanding accomplishment in the picture is his work with Betty Hutton, so successful that the brash, bumptious bouncer becomes a light and joyous comedienne. Eddy Bracken is cut out for his role, and the two of them carry the picture, although Sturges has not neglected the minor roles...
Watson's first attempts to cope with aggressive adolescence usually misfired. "I am not," he writes sadly, "a wrestler or bouncer . . . and sitting behind a theater desk for about 25 years does not make a man in the pink." He picked up a bit of judo from a sailor and "this worked-sometimes." But once Manager Watson was thrown out of his own theater by one of his customers, and "that is bad for business." At last Watson solved his problem "by using show business and showmanship in the show business." Now he dresses for work...