Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past ten years, a slim, long-faced cockney girl with big blue eyes and a big blue voice has been the queen of England's popular singers. By last week, Vera Lynn's voice was being heard across the U.S. - and if she wasn't yet the queen of U.S. singers, she was at least high on the list of ladies in waiting...
When her recording (London Records) of You Can't Be True, Dear first hit the U.S. last May, thousands of fans bought the platter and listened. Here, for a change, was a girl who really sang, straight out and straight on the beat, instead of cooing mushily and straying away from the band. Last month, her warmly sung Again crept into Variety as a comer on the coin machines. By last week, Vera and Again seemed headed straight for the hit parade...
...with her husband Harry and three-year-old daughter Virginia at home in Regent's Park, where she still does most of the housework-"anything with my hands, and not much with my brain." Vera's explanation of her success: "I suppose I'm the girl in the street, singing to the man in the street...
Manhattan music lovers were listening last week to another English girl who sings straight...
...better nature triumphs in the end. The happy ending is scarcely a surprise, but Director John Farrow leads up to it with a series of small shocks, and neat twists. He appears to have the exhilarating conviction that man-meets-devil can be as interesting as boy-meets-girl. The fine sardonic dialogue of Jonathan Latimer's screen play is a great help, and so are devilish good performances by Milland and Mitchell...