Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shopping as usual, answers the phone and the door, chats prosily with teacher when she comes to see if Richard, who has stayed home "sick" from school, is feeling any better. Father and daughter go to work in the morning, and in the evening daughter dates her young lawyer (Gig Young). But people make mistakes. Little Richard writes a warning to teacher in his copybook, and father intercepts it only just in time. Another time March manages, by a brilliant stroke of opportunity, to lock two of the brutes out of the house and overpower a third. He leaps...
Three pretty sisters (Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elisabeth Fraser) live a quiet, homey, small-town life with their father (Robert Keith) and aunt (Ethel Barrymore). Along comes a handsome, egotistical young composer (Gig Young) who sets everybody aflutter-but it is freckle-faced Doris who flips the most...
When it appears that Doris and Gig will make happy music together, bird-like Frank Sinatra shows up wearing a chip on his shoulder. Frankie, a saloon pianist and musical arranger, is on his uppers. "They," he says, looking up at the ceiling from where the Fates guide his misery, have never given him a break...
...wedding day, Doris leaves Gig at the altar with his ego and elopes with Frankie to a city hovel. There are the usual misunderstandings, more cruel blows from the Fates and an attempted suicide before the happy fadeout around the family piano...
...gig, n. One-night stand; also...