Word: dood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
...Vincente Minnelli got into New York theaters via musical comedy, as a designer of costumes, sets and ballets. Once dropped from Paramount (where he was paid $2,000 a week), he returned to Hollywood in 1940. Up to now, he has made musicals exclusively (Cabin in the Sky, I Dood It, the luscious Meet Me in St. Louis). He was frightened at first by the straight-dramatic Clock. But he turned it into a directorial tour de force. Studiously as he researches and plans his films, Minnelli is no theorist : "The exciting thing about pictures," he says...
...Harold W. Dood's announcement that Princeton College would not schedule football games next season placed the Tigers on the list of those colleges that have abandoned formal football for the duration...
...Dood It (M.G.M.) To spite a faithless fiancé, a dancing actress (Eleanor Powell) marries a man (Red Skelton) who, she believes, owns a gold mine. She kicks him out when she learns that he is really a pants-presser, grabs him back when he foils a saboteur's attempt to blow up a munitions warehouse...