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Married. Dan Dailey, 37, Hollywood song-and-dance star (There's No Business Like Show Business); and Gwen O'Connor, 28, ex-wife of Cinemactor Donald O'Connor; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...tigers is Bud Haabestad, the leagues' top scorer last year, and a consistent performer this season. Last night against Brown, Haabestad had 17 points, four behind his teammate, John DeVoe. Other probable starters for Cappy Cappons quintet are Don Davidson, John Easton, and either Dick Batt or Tom Dailey...
There's No Business Like Show Business (20th Century-Fox) is another picture that does a lot of big-name-dropping -Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe and Johnnie Ray-and some of the names drop with a big thud. The show is an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined...
...plots, but then this is a huge gathering of all musicals. Glue for the mixture is a pleasing serum of Irving Berlin's tunes and a splashing does of technicolor. Ethel Merman is the film's biggest asset, launching into her songs with a driving enthusiasm that shames Dan Dailey, who is busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn. For all her eye and hip rolling, Monroe is unable...
...contrast to Miss Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor adds a bright and pert performance. A few pounds lighter and no longer sassy, she is pleasing for the first time. Another member of the Dailey-Merman family is Johnnic "Cry" Ray, surprisingly cast as a religiously serious showman who becomes a priest. Although his chin wags abnormally when he sings, Ray's style is unique and entertaining...