Word: jitterbugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish movie clichés. Johnny Green's score (best songs: Something in the Wind, I'm Happy Go Lucky and Free, The Turntable Song) has a tough time bucking the script. Several competent supporting actors (Donald...
...bille, a confirmed jitterbug, has written an intimatist novel, La Commandante, which sold 10,000 copies in less than three weeks, and an intimatist poem called The Bikini Yodel...
Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...
...that is meant to take place in a beauty parlor involves nine (not ten) young ladies costumed as fingernails performing a rather vapid series of body movements. But luckily the tempo is fast, and in a few minutes the girls are out there again doing a delightful waltz and jitterbug act. Then a few minutes more, and they're in a dazzling outdoor scene that has a spontaneity seldom seen in professional ice performances...
...Jitterbug," declared veteran composer Sigmund Romberg (Student Prince,Blossom Time), "is the healthiest kind of exercise. There's no sex in it like those 'lights low' dances after the last war. But I predict its eventual demise...