Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Producer George Jessel has a way with loud, gaudy musicals (The Dolly Sisters...
...years, hard-working Comic Berle drove himself so overbearingly to fulfill his destiny that many a bitter show-business colleague came to regard him as a gag-stealing braggart. Now, having conquered at last, Milton seems to be living down his bad reputation. Success agrees with him. Says George Jessel: "He doesn't have to try so hard now, and so he's not so liable to be stepping on other people's toes." Once damned by many who had to work with him on the way up, he now has the respect and good will...
Next day, between talks with officials about new housing and labor legislation, he sandwiched in a few minutes with Movie Producer George Jessel, who came to present a copy of a song he had written (with two tunesmiths) for Harry Truman.* It will be dedicated to the President at a Democratic rally in Los Angeles next week. Reported Jessel: "In Hollywood, everyone has decided he's a Democrat again...
...Grauer is a tired, pleasant, chainsmoking little (5 ft. 6 in.) man who looks something like George Jessel with hair. He is a bachelor, a bow-tie fancier, a tea-drinker and a raconteur...
Fewer nightclubs were open, and some were working hard to stay open. The last two nights that Comic George Jessel played the Copacabana, the place threw away its minimum charge. The Latin Quarter advertised "a complete evening's entertainment for $5." Growled the headwaiter at the Latin Quarter: "The goose is here but she ain't layin' any more...