Word: hoofer
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...TINSELTOWN the pariah-to-parvenu actors and actresses--the tots in Hollywood--sit around a barren movie set, pink slips in their hands, pondering their impending return to poverty. Kitty Kaboodle, dancing wonder, naif from Moot Point, Montana, says she'll go home, give up the glamour. But Henna Hoofer, jaded and street-smart, tries to change Kitty's mind; she tells her she's got to keep on, then looks up into the lights in a mood of inspiration invoking the dream of the silver screen: "Everywhere," she says, "there are girls... and a few strange boys... who want...
...York during the Depression with hopes of instant stardom, or at least she says she's marked it on her calendar. Kitty falls in with other down-and-outers in a chorus-line--including Flo Gently, the first lady of the American stage ("The very first"), and Henna Hoofer, whose name is mispronounced more out of a sense of accuracy than anything else--and she meets songwriter Buddy System and falls in love. But Preston Folded, a Hollywood producer scouting for talent, wants to "make free" with Kitty, and in exchange for his taking her and all her friends...
...classic clown, hoofer, hit lyricist (Georgy Girl), pop-music headliner and Shakespearean actor, Jim Dale began with a simple ambition. When he was nine, his father took him to a London music hall. "We sat up in the gods [top balcony], and everyone onstage looked an inch high," Dale recalls. "But I was looking at the audience. I never saw 2,000 people laugh before, and I felt so happy for that little bloke onstage. I thought then: What I want to do is make people laugh...
...Band Wagon. One of the best musicals to come out of the tuneful fifties, although there is not enough Fred Astaire in it. Mr. Fred is an aging hoofer who is persuaded to come back to co-star with Cyd Charisse in her stage debut. Nanette Fabray is completely obnoxious, but the irascible Oscar Levant consistently manages to upstage her. The highlight is a dance number with Astaire as a private eye and Charisse as the sleazy streetwalker in distress. Lots of good songs, and a plot so old that you just have to love it. Channel...
...celebrity-sprinkled crowd of 1,500, some in costumes of the '40s, applauded a constellation of stars who were the '40s: Ruby Keeler, Myrna Lay, Jane Withers, Patsy Kelly, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert, Arlene Francis, Lena Home. "Didn't they all look great?" asked ex-Hoofer Dan Dailey. "Mind you, there was a lot of mileage up there...