Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be the big-name attraction at a $50 and $100 a plate dinner to raise money for St. Anthony's Church in Portsmouth, R.I. On hand for the occasion will be some 300 of her friends and admirers, including Arlene Dahl, George Jessel and Kate Smith. Betty had fetched up on the rectory doorstep last February, stone-broke and despondent about four divorces and a dead-end acting career. Taken on as an unpaid cook-housekeeper by Fathers Peter Maguire and James Hamilton, she wasted no time at all bouncing back. "She's lost none...
...good son of a bitch," George Jessel said about Singer Al Jolson, who died in 1950, "but he was the greatest entertainer I've ever seen." According to a new biography by Freelance Michael Freedland, the greatest encore of Jolson's career was his tours for the U.S.O. during World...
...this outing, Bob Hope unpacks a parcel of sleazy, wheezy gags about Bing Crosby, Martha Mitchell, New York City, Women's Liberation, wom en's undergarments and Georgie Jessel. For a little change of pace, he tosses off a Billy Graham joke...
...politician in Nixon was especially flattered by the turnout of some 400 stage, screen and television celebrities for a party he and the First Lady gave at their San Clemente home. They included such oldtime stars as John Wayne, Jack Benny, George Jessel, James Stewart, Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante and Lawrence Welk, as well as some Democratic turncoats: Frank Sinatra, Jim Brown, Charlton Heston and George Hamilton. (Remember George and Lynda Bird?) The President was in high spirits, chatting amiably and expressing his gratitude "for what you, the people of Hollywood, have done for America and have done...
Properly handled, such a gimmick might have launched a spoof of James' involuted style or a parody of Freudian criticism (scholars have wrangled for decades about whether the ghosts of Quint and Jessel are merely figments of the new governess's sexually starved imagination). Director-Producer Michael Winner, however, tries for a pretentious shocker in fancy dress. He serves up a pastiche of sexual sadism, witchcraft (two dolls are burned in chamber pots) and a pair of Quintessential messages: love and hate are synonymous; the dead just hang around wherever they are killed...