Word: dressers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outsize gold frames. But there was brisk trading in the Hearst antique paneled rooms (complete with fireplaces and window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...
Beau Jack is not only a flashy fighter but a flashy dresser. His favorite costume consists of a yellow-checked coat, peg-top pants, green porkpie hat, purple tie, yellow shoes. He dislikes Harlem: too noisy. But he can't stay away from Broadway shooting galleries. He gets $3 a week for spending money, shoots most of it away. Girls he shuns because the syndicate warned him they would prevent him from becoming a champ...
Although one of Hollywood's almost unbearably beautiful young males, Victor Mature, plays the Dresser role, he is generally bearable. Whenever he gets coy, out of character and into fatuity, Director Irving Cummings distracts attention from him with a mighty pretty red herring: beauteous Rita Hayworth, who, in Technicolor, singing and dancing her way through eight melodies, is enough to raise hair on the boys in baldhead...
...pretty, American musicomedy star with a headful of russet red curls, Miss Hayworth meets Dresser on the Chautauqua circuit, irks him to Manhattan, sings his songs, falls in & out of love with him to the final fadeout. Director Cummings never lets these familiar tactics grow tiresome. Blessed with some truly imaginative and exciting sets, some of the best musical arrangements of this or any other season, a powderbox-full of new dance routines, inspired costuming, he manages to make the gaslight era seem just around a very inviting corner...
Because only six of the Dresser melodies (best: My Gal Sal, Wabash, The Convict and The Bird) were considered sufficiently undated, Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger turned out four new tunes. Any or all of them (Here You Are, Oh, The Pity Of It All, Me and My Fella, On The Great White Way) should be best-seller-bound...