Word: hoofer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singers. Aging (59) Gossipist Walter Winchell, who for six weeks has been frenetically plugging himself all over the air and in his column, brought all his hammy radio techniques to his new NBC-TV show, and managed to serve up the fastest variety bill of the new season. Ex-Hoofer Winchell, hat on head, staccato voice spitting old Winchellisms ("The land you love, the love you land"), clowned edgily around a stage clogged with celebrities (Sammy Davis Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Martha Raye, Dorothy Kilgallen) who did nothing much but stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect...
...will loose a torrent of color spectaculars in hopes of tottering CBS's rating preeminence. Splashiest of all will probably be onetime Vaudeville Hoofer Walter Winchell as host of his own variety show early next month. Paul Douglas will join Mary Martin, biggest audience-puller on TV. in Born Yesterday on Hallmark Hall of Fame, which will also repro cruce Shaw's Man and Superman with
...biggest reasons for the show's doldrums was ex-Hoofer George Murphy, who issued an "Urgent Message" to all delegates: "Keep your mind on the TV camera, because the TV camera may be on you." Apparently Stage Manager Murphy told everybody everything except what to say. Commented Murphy: "Someday I'm going to run a convention the right way, with a trap door right under the speakers...
...sees his wife (Milly Vitale) only the minimum amount of time necessary to father seven children. What he does with the time thus saved is never fully explained. According to the movie, his principal nonworking pastimes are playing pool and trading insults with James Cagney, thinly disguised as Hoofer George M. Cohan...
...players, Van Johnson, as the other American, is a total miscast. Cyd Charisse chores through some tiresome choreography without much zest. And Gene Kelly, an amiable and efficient commercial hoofer, makes another unfortunate attempt to be the poor man's Nijinsky...