Word: evelina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laid in an Eastern town in 1861, Bloomer Girl features revolt as well as romance. Evelina Applegate (played by thin-voiced but charming Celeste Holm) is the daughter of a stuffy manufacturer of hoopskirts, the niece of a suffragist proponent of bloomers. The young lady throws in her lot with her aunt, who also hides fugitive slaves. As a result, Evelina quarrels with her Kentucky beau (David Brooks), owner of one of the fugitives; and when Auntie gets pinched for crusading, Evelina accompanies her to jail. In musicomedy, however, stone walls do not an ending make...
...this is pleasantly interrupted by Composer Arlen's (Stormy Weather, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic) music-the choral lilt of When the Boys Come Home, the solemn gaiety of Sunday in Cicero Falls (a big spectacle number), the romantic fooling of Evelina, the dusky The Eagle and Me, the warm balladry of I Got a Song (put over with a bang by huge black Richard Huey...