Word: hoofer
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Jowls & Shanks. Pa is nicely played by Buddy Ebsen, 54, the ex-hoofer who last scored on TV as George Russell, constant companion of Davy Crockett. Pa has an oafishly agreeable young cousin named Jethro, who is a l'il weak-minded and has spent a dozen years in the fifth grade at Oxford. Oxford where? No one wonders except the thick-witted Hollywood types who want to know if Jethro went to Eton as a boy. "If I know Jethro, he went to eatin' when he was a baby," says Pa. Jethro is played by Max Baer...
...bucked and winged from the gaslight era's Tony Pastor's to his last Broadway performance in Guys and Dolls; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Enchanted as a child by the hurdy-gurdies of Manhattan's Lower East Side, the leprechaun-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) hoofer endeared himself to three generations with his delivery of The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady, his tapping brogans keeping the beat for his gentle Irish brogue...
Marriage Annulled. Ann Miller, 43, thrice-married Hollywood hoofer; and Oklahoma Oilman Arthur Cameron, 61, generous in three previous divorce settlements; in Santa Monica, Calif. Grounds: unspecified. Settlement: less than $1,000,000, not the $7,000,000 Ann demanded...
...doesn't look a day older; enemies say she doesn't act a day older. But in twelve years and 26 films the little lady-she stands 5 ft. 1½ in., weighs 100 Ibs.-has developed, by sheer work and sheer nylons, into an effective hoofer and a get-by ballad-belter. And in recent films she has emerged as a competent utility comedienne, a half-fast Hutton, a pingpong Ball with lots of bounce...
...shortly after his 18th birthday last spring and told the truth. He was born in Paris of a French mother and a Belgian father, and his name is Jean-Philippe Smet. After his parents separated, he was reared from age six by his aunt, wife of an American vaudeville hoofer named Lee Hallyday. With his foster parents, he traveled the world from Cairo to Mexico City, eventually joining their song and dance...