Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After seven days of going their separate, well-publicized ways and living in different hotels, Crooner Frank Sinatra and his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner patched up their lovers' spat in his mother's New Jersey home. Later, when Ava caught Frankie's act at a Jersey nightclub, the New York Journal-American was pleased to report: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him like molten lava...
...Oldtime Crooner Rudy ("The Vagabond Lover") Vallee, still crying "Heigh-ho, everybody" in the nightclubs, dropped into Port Arthur, Ont. for a one-night stand and hinted that he might not go on forever. At 52, he said, he was getting tired and thinking of retiring in a year or two to his Hollywood home. A reporter asked how old he felt. Sighed Rudy: "Like an old race horse regarding the ice wagon...
When a man gets a crush on Rita Hayworth, he is sometimes in danger of carrying the thing too far. Twice-married Crooner Dick Haymes, 34, was in trouble with the U.S. Immigration Department because he followed thrice-married Rita to Hawaii last May. Possible punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita...
Summertime, U.S.A. (Tues. & Thurs., 7:45 p.m., CBS-TV) is filled with danceable music and pretty girls. Using scarcely a line of dialogue, the show features Crooner Mel Torme and Teresa Brewer, a topnotch singer with a voice somewhere between a blowtorch and a cello. Also on hand: the Honeydreamers quintet, and a trio of dancers cavorting at different U.S. vacation spots each week. The Thursday commercials, plugging General Electric, are unobjectionable...
...Other Love (Perry Como; Victor). One of the better ballads from the new Rodgers & Hammerstein show, Me and Juliet. Crooner Como is in top form in the Romeo role...