Word: dinah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stars in Jazz (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Louis Armstrong, Singer Dinah Washington...
Steeped in Aplomb. While Hollywood was beginning the new season with drama, Manhattan concentrated on songsters. Eddie Fisher and Perry Como arrived back on TV with the dependability of swallows zooming into Capistrano. Soon due are such talented warblers as Vaughn Monroe, Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Martha Wright and Jane Froman. Eddie Fisher sang four songs, worked in a little quick sell for his sponsor (Coca-Cola), and on ballads, unashamedly imitated his idol, Perry Como...
...PENNY THAT ROLLED AWAY, by Louis MacNeice (Putnam; $2.25), is a coin's-eye view of the world pegged on the comic misadventures of "a dime called Dinah and a nickel called Nick and a brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...
...other three components of the film, Dinah Shore's singing takes second by default; but her acting, as a saucy WAC, is indifferent at best. Served up by Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, the romance is undigestible and the buffet of Goldwyn girls clad in turquoise and pink pedal-pushers is not the most authentic picture of WAC regiments...
...four leads, Kenneth More and Kay Kendel are pleasantly cccentric in their respective roles of bachelor and pseudo-sophisticate. A married couple, played by John Gregson and Dinah Sheridon, supply arch opposition. More dialogue for the cast, instead of reliance on the same comedy situation, might have boosted Genevieve even higher. As it stands, the film is an excellent comedy...