Word: carson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heat's On. Once before this year, the President had gotten another oldtime New Dealer-Federal Trade Commissioner John Carson-past a balky committee, by turning on some purely political heat. He decided to try again with Olds, sent for National Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. On Harry Truman's orders, Boyle dispatched telegrams to every Democratic national and state committeeman, governor and mayor in the U.S.. told them Olds's defeat would be "a victory for the power lobbyists and the Republican Party," and instructed them to whip their Senators into line...
...Great Feeling (Warner) is another clownish musical harnessing Jack Carson and Doris Day to the formula used in My Dream Is Yours, which they recently dragged through the neighborhood circuits. Doris is again the little girl with a big voice, in search of a still bigger career. Carson is the man to help her. His help, as usual, is mostly hindrance...
...make certain that the old gags and gimmicks will still work, the studio has wrapped them all up in one supercolossal gag. The whole plot takes place on the Warner Bros. lot. Carson and Dennis Morgan, exuding arch embarrassment, play their real-life selves. So do Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and a few other Warner stars who have been rushed on for bit roles. For ardent movie fans, these peeks at the great may help carry the film. But for most moviegoers, the spoofing is hardly good enough to conceal the laborious spadework...
Songstress Mindy Carson has been melting the steel ears off the song-weary help for the last four weeks. Wrote nightclub critics: "Sensational," "ear-caressing," "the most exciting gal singer we've heard in a long time." Next week the Coba moves Mindy to the top of its bill. She is the youngest singer (22) who has ever headlined the big-time Copa...
...From Carson City to Kabul, the audience sighed pleasurably and started feeling for its shoes. The chase was over. In sunny France last week, the son of the Prophet finally did right by little Rita...