Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cracks made in Manhattan: "Communists at a meeting yesterday in New York have instructed two of their best writers to portray me as a Broadway glamor boy and particularly to inquire into my affairs with women in New York City...
...moment of the evening was when Debutante Mary Churchill, a glamor girl in anybody's country, espied her famed father, the First Sea Lord, trying to sneak in like a tired bulldog to an inconspicuous table. She promptly dragged him out to sit with her own café society group, including the orchidaceous Marquesa de Casa Maury and brilliant carrot-haired Editor Brendan Bracken of The Banker. Spotting "Winston," the whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever...
...immense, variety. Starting out as wit comedy, it suddenly become self-conscious, realizes it is falling flat, and ends up as out-and-out burlesque. If "Worth A Million" had tried to compete with the Old Howard, from the start, it could have made better use of its east. Glamor-the old and the new -is represented to perfection in Nita Naldi and Cobina Wright, Jr. Nita is dark and over-weight. Junior is blonde and slim. He stature is picturesque. She deserves to have a play built completely around her--a play which would just stop in the middle...
Broadway Melody of 1940 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). An uplifting little tale of backstage unselfishness among the hoofers is mounted with the same gorgeousness, but minus the bounce of Broadway-Melodies of 1936 and 1938. This year emphasis on the male lead has been shifted from glamor (Robert Taylor) to talent (Fred Astaire). With George Murphy and Eleanor Powell (survivor of the two previous Melodies), Astaire taps his way through a half-dozen nimble numbers, including Begin the Beguine, some more recent, less inspired Cole Porter tunes. Frank Morgan chases ungrateful files de joie, who try to make off with...
MURDER IN SHINBONE ALLEY - Helen Reilly-Crime Club ($2). A rich old dodderer and the witless Willie Cleet get theirs before Inspector McKee finds out who shoved last year's unloved Glamor Girl off the 14th story art school terrace. Close to tops, with plenty of screwy New York types...