Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bellboy! (Gloria Wood and Pete Candoli's Orchestra; Capitol). A surrealistic ballad in bop. The only words are the title, called out coaxingly, then petulantly, then desperately, and always answered with comic effect by a chime. In between, Songstress ' Wood noodles breathlessly along with the high clarinet, leaving the listener to imagine what it all means...
...Manhattan, after interviewing returning notables on the Queen Elizabeth, newsmen caught a glimpse and no more of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, back from Europe incognito (his traveling alias: Anthony Stanley) and minus his heiress wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski. Shielding his face with a black coat, he ducked out of his cabin, hurried down the gangplank and off in a waiting limousine...
...comes under his bloodshot eye. The excuse for it all is a bone of a plot which casts him as that improbable character, W. C. Fields. A beery, sneering bum with a face like a malignant baby, Fields pauses only long enough to allow his protege, perennial-adolescent Gloria Jean, to catch up with him. There is no pretence of continuity--the film is Fields and it is funny...
...manager and clown tightrope-walker, gives an earnest performance that seems to recall a little too strongly his confused Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Terry Moore as his bareback-riding daughter and Cameron Mitchell as a circus handyman in love with her are merely displaced Hollywood juveniles. Gloria Grahame as the circus manager's sultry young wife and Adolphe Menjou as a secret-police officer carry more conviction, but the best performances are bits, e.g., Alex D'Arcy as a fatuously handsome lion tamer, Hansi as a circus dwarf, Dorothea Wieck as an equestrienne...
...ingenue quales illis custodibus severis Kerby-Molitori ct Leightono interdum molestac sint. Cum hic cunuchus falsus--immo vero hic Gactulus lco--per cuiusdam servi callidi insidias domum intrat quam suac deliciac Pamphila ct illa merctrix splendida Thais habitant, quac flagitia quac implications amatoriacl Pro Venere omnes militant non sinc gloria. Sed de argumento satis...