Word: cabareting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there cannot be many who would be able to stand "365 Nights in Hollywood." The songs are none too catchy, the story is unbelievably atrocious and Alice Faye who seems to be the raison d'etre of the opus would do much better in a cabaret where she would not be forced to dim her physical charms by unsuccessful attempts at acting. Despite these failings the picture will please if you are not in too cerebral a mood...
...danced the leading roles. For Hear Ye! Hear Ye!, a courtroom parody, she wrote her own scenario, had it approved by her lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes...
...with a loud-mouthed Jew named Harry Bexler. Her real adventures began when a German agent broke into their bedroom, shot Harry because he knew too much about his boss's secret business. Suzy left England in a hurry, took refuge in Paris. There she sang in a cabaret, shared a room with a fanatic Socialist, picked up geography, table manners and general intelligence from the quickening Parisian atmosphere. Her affair with a handsome French nobleman was purely platonic until he went to the front; then she discovered she was no platonist. She flew to his side...
...Boyer's first job was as stenographer to a theatrical producer. When he dictated his first letter she confessed she knew nothing about typing, wanted a part in his play. The part was insignificant but one day his assistant heard her singing in her dressing-room, suggested a cabaret. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" was a simple, fragile tune but the Boyer version was so expertly tender that she became the talk of the town, the chief attraction to many a wealthy tourist who bought drink after drink and fancied that she was singing for him alone...
...Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler. adapted by Jessie Ernst: A. H. Woods, producer). Baron Cassini (Francis Lister) is a bigwig of the Paris Bourse. Eugene Charlier (Francis Lister ) is a peewee entertainer at the Red Cat Cabaret. They look alike. When business reasons make it expedient for the Baron to be in two places at once, he goes to England while Charlier impersonates him at home. When the Baron returns, he hops into bed with the Baroness (Ruth Weston), thinking she thinks he is his double. Out of this situation Authors Lothar and Adler work the last bit of suggestiveness...