Word: dees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onomatopoeia, otherwise known in the trade as scat. Scat is like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...
...RATHER BE RICH. Another romantic mixup, another wayward heiress-but the familiar ingredients are whipped into a nice froth by Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams, Hermione Gingold...
...RATHER BE RICH. In this surprisingly sprightly comedy, Sandra Dee occupies an acute romantic triangle with Andy Williams and Robert Goulet, while Hermione Gingold and Maurice Chevalier sharpen its points...
...which the actors often appear to be addressing to Destiny rather than to one another, perhaps out of kindness. Actress Bloom intones: "He couldn't touch all we've been to each other." Newman's bandit is a growling comic-strip Mexican who leers: "You cooked dee pot of tamales, I juz' took off dee lid." And in the film's bumbling climax, ironic tragedy turns to fatuity when Harvey belly-whoppers into a clump of sage, staggers to his feet, notes a bejeweled dagger protruding bloodlessly from his chest and announces coyly: "Ah tripped...
...RATHER BE RICH. Another of those mix-ups about a wayward heiress proves, surprisingly enough, continually lively and often hilarious as played by Sandra Dee, with Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Andy Williams and Robert Goulet...