Word: crooners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law. Also included in the entourage: a dog in a black sweater. Frankie and Peter had an urgent mission: to stage a mammoth Inauguration Eve entertainment gala in the capital's National Guard Armory. Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: "It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia. I could talk...
...production is slick, the songs are good-notably one in which Crooner Frankie Vaughan says with fervor, in effect, never mind good lyrics, "give me a song that sells"-and the plot no thinner than most. The supporting actors are expert, especially Tony Randall, who plays Montand's pressagent with an accurate blend of servility and fresh-faced eagerness. One reason why the film, although consistently pleasant, is only fitfully funny may be a plague now widespread in Hollywood movies. Milton Berle, Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby appear in brief "cameo" parts as themselves (they are supposed...
...Broadway Bye Bye Birdie. Director Gower Champion's fresh and frantic musical about an Elvis-type crooner swings through the evening like a pendulum gone wild...
...Birdie. Rock 'n' rollers of the unsilent generation turn this musical about a pompadoured, gold-jacketed crooner into one of the season's best, least pretentious musicals...
...Birdie. Shrieking, ranting, rock-'n'-rolling teen-agers turn this musical about an Elvis Presleyish crooner into an infectiously lively party...