Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornered (RKO Radio) is ex-Crooner Dick Powell's second try (The first: Murder, My Sweet) in the sort of unshaven, tough-talking role usually reserved for Humphrey Bogart. This time Powell is a Canadian flyer, an ex-prisoner of the Nazis, with an ugly scar on his close-cropped head and a frozen scowl on his face. He is out to get the dirty collaborationist who murdered his young French wife. The chase takes him to South America and into a nest of fashionably dressed, fast-living people who are plainly plotting the next Nazi war of aggression...
...Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...
...note of cheer was struck by the House Naval Affairs Committee. When reporters sought the committee's authority for saying that electronic detonation of approaching bombs promised to provide an effective defense, the committee turned out to have nothing more solid in mind than a newspaper interview with Crooner Bing Crosby's somewhat scientific brother Larry...
...pattern of brief appearances by a large number of well-known Paramount characters is followed to the letter. While it obviously isn't art, it is undeniably good, or at least varied, entertainment. There are, in fact, several numbers which go over very well, particularly a humorous biography of Crooner Crosby, narrated quite cynically by Bob Benchley to Crosby's four equally cynical sons...
Sinatra, now determined to give his following something besides a swoon, has also gone to work on fellow performers. He has persuaded Comic Danny Kaye, Dancer Gene Kelly and Crooner Bing Crosby to make movie shorts along the same lines. Said he last week: "I have never believed in anything so zealously in all my life...