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Climaxing "Adolph Zukor Day" was a $75,000 dinner for 1,000-odd guests at Hollywood's Palladium. Songstress Rosemary Clooney sang (a microphone concealed in the bosom of her dress) Happy Birthday to You; William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd rode into the ballroom astride Topper to shout "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zukor!"; Oldtimer Mary Pickford made a teary speech and Oldtimer Mae Murray did a scampering dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Early Tycoon | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Stage sets for the New York City Ballet Company. 80. In Too Old to Cut the Mustard popular Rosemary Clooney sings a raucous country alto to the improbable baritone of: 1. Paul Dixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...differs, too, from the singing of other Portuguese fadistas, just as Bessie Smith's blues differ from Pearl Bailey's. Amalia, who is steeped in her country's Moorish musical tradition, alternates a passionate, reedy wail with a tone of warm caress. She thinks that Rosemary Clooney's current song, Half as Much, is the closest thing to U.S. fado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fado in Manhattan | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

Martin & Lewis Show (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Singer Rosemary Clooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Onstage, Songstress Clooney's gestures are deft, her manner friendly. Her working costume is never sexy or slinky, always demure white, usually with a fitted bodice and flaring ballerina skirt. No one knows better than Rosemary that she will never be another Dietrich. "Yeah," she admits, "I guess it's a compliment to be called the wholesome type. With what I've got to work with, as a femme fatale I'm dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wholesome Type | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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