Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional letter writers) who held forth in a plaza near the presidential palace. The mosaic-tiled promenades in the parks, where boy met girl in evening roundabout strolls as stylized as ballet, are deserted; nowadays, boy blows auto horn summoning dark-eyed beauty to drive off to the nearest cabaret or lovers' lane...
Scared Stiff (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a shrill blend of spooks and slapstick set on a mysterious tropical island. While trying to help Heiress Lizabeth Scott take possession of the island, Cabaret Performers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis get tangled up with treasure-hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he is not being locked in a trunk or imprisoned in a haunted castle's torture chamber, Jerry also imitates Carmen Miranda, and Dean sings (I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope...
...Then it was Europe. All over Europe. But finally I quit Katherine Dunham. I had been there for a long time and I was getting stagnant. I wanted to go on my own. So I got a job singing at 'Carroll's' which is a cabaret. That's where Orson Welles saw me." He was strange. I met him at the bar upstairs. You know, there are two bars at 'Carroll's,' one upstairs and one downstairs, and he said very formally, 'Hello, my dear, I certainly enjoyed your performance this evening.' A record across the room was playing...
...months and some 1,500 performances after the Manhattan opening of South Pacific, Actress Mary Martin stepped out of her role of Nurse Nellie Forbush and turned it over to Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson. The next night Mary was doing a nightclub stint herself. She agreed to do a cabaret skit, including singing a duet (Baby, It's Cold Outside), with Friend Noel Coward. Occasion: a benefit performance for the London Actors Orphanage...
...Dunham's dance school. She had bit parts (dancing and some singing) in three Dunham shows, but in the midst of a European tour with the troupe, Eartha decided she had learned all she wanted to learn about dancing. She quit the company to sing in a Paris cabaret, promptly learned something more. Just before she went out to sing, the manager took one look at her demure, opening-night dress, then & there ripped it up to the hips on both sides. Fortunately, says Eartha, "I have nice legs...