Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come On-a Stan's House (Stan Freeman, harpsichord, with rhythm trio; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Talented Pianist Freeman first tried the harpsichord for background effect in Rosemary Clooney's bestselling Come On-a My House. He now shows that the old instrument sounds just as cheerful in the foreground of such tunes as Just One of Those Things, St. Louis Blues, September Song and Blue Room...
Dear Brat (Paramount). First came 1947's Dear Ruth, a comedy hit; then came the sequel, 1949's Dear Wife, a turkey. The third of the series can be described as a turkey croquette. Like its predecessor, Dear Brat celebrates the adolescent excesses of Mona Freeman, playing a feminine Henry Aldrich. This time she cues Edward Arnold's slow burns and Billy De Wolfe's prissy swivets by trying to rehabilitate a hardened criminal (Lyle Bettger), who bears a special grudge against Judge Arnold. The result is the kind of movie that helps sell television sets...
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...took 2½ years for her to be able to write: "Now for the first time I know what the words mean, 'to be in possession of oneself.' " It took five years to finish the analysis. Reporter Freeman's frank recital spells out much about psychoanalysis that is not widely understood; her book may help many a borderline neurotic to decide whether or not he wants to take to the couch...
Amos 'n' Andy (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV) reaches television as a half-hour filmed show after a talent search that took four years. Heading the cast of characters originally created in blackface by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden in a quartercentury of radio shows: ex-Vaudevillian Tim Moore as the posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better...