Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan playhouse, at the Paramount, at the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, hundreds of little long-haired, round-faced girls in bobby socks sat transfixed. They were worshipers of one Francis Albert Sinatra, crooner extraordinary. Their idol, a gaunt young man (25), looked as if he could stand a square meal and considerable mothering. A composite picture of his idolaters' reactions to his public appearances last week...
...usher gently shook her; she came to for a moment, relapsed into reverie. A girl in the second row held a pair of powerful field glasses glued to her eyes. Another minced to the stage, raised herself on tiptoe and tenderly deposited a white flower at the crooner's feet...
Then, last year, Warner Bros., seeking a love theme for Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, fished As Time Goes By out of the files. Instead of giving the tune to a conventional crooner, Warners picked Dooley Wilson. He is something special. He has one of the warmest personalities that ever got into show business. He sings with understatement and a sense of mood worthy of a great lieder singer. Dooley gave As Time Goes By everything he had. When Ingrid Bergman in the film says that no one can sing the song like Sam (Dooley), millions of moviegoers...
...RAFerryman, was sued in Montreal by his wife for $400 a month separate maintenance. Barbara Bennett Downey Randall, sister of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett, lost her fight for custody of her five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife but would continue as his manager and gagwriter, said...
...cinemactors appear to take more pains than Hoofer Astaire, less pains than Crooner Crosby. Result: Crosby's easy, casual banter is just the right foil for Astaire's precision acrobatics, his wry, offbeat humor...