Word: hoofer
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This matters little to Warner Bros., which employs the face; as long as Dorothy Provine's makeup is straight, her most important register is cash. She registers that very nicely, as the blonde Charleston hoofer in the least roarious of TV's lost hours. The Roaring 20s. It is Dorothy's oooohing and shimmying that have kept the series afloat: each Saturday night, viewers who might better be occupied playing Guggenheim or watching Perry Mason turn faithfully to ABC. They endure anywhere from five minutes to an hour of stupefying drama about racketeers and handsome reporters that...
...better script than he gets in this sniggery little dogface farce. The G.I. hero (Presley) is stationed, as Elvis was, in Germany; and he has, as Elvis had, more "frowlines" than he can find time for. Then of course he meets the girl he can't have, a hoofer (Juliet Prowse) in a Frankfurt Kabarett, and makes a bet he can "get his foot in the door" before the week is out. He wins the bet, loses the girl, wins her back at the fade. Time and again the scriptwriters run out of ideas, and whenever that happens Elvis...
Kanin's hero (Tony Curtis) is a young sax maniac from Milwaukee who has come to Manhattan to blow the town down-he stands for Innocence. The heroine (Debbie Reynolds) is a hoofer who expected to wrap show business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of tryouts is still suckering sailors in a dime-a-dance hall-she stands for Experience. And the villain of the piece is the great big city, a sort of cold-water Sodom populated by pimps, prostitutes, land pirates, tourist trappers, gay young switchblades, softheaded bartenders and hard-nosed landlords...
...fact, the only thing really worth seeing is Juliet Prowse, a young South African hoofer who puts some twinkle in the stub-toed choreography. And the only thing really worth hearing is the crack that Frank flips back at Juliet when she whips a redoubtable hip in his direction...
...dance and the girl who invented it sluiced east ward toward Broadway on a rising tide of bathtub gin and needled beer. By then, Maryanna had become Mary Gray. But Red Hot Mamma Sophie Tucker caught her act and told her that Mary was no handle for a hoofer. Sophie looked at the spun-gold hair above the lithe, slim shape and decreed that Mary should be Gilda...