Word: kalmar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison, came to Dalecarlia with news of the "Stockholm Blood Bath," a mass beheading of Swedish noblemen with which Christian II, already King of Denmark and Norway, had celebrated his coronation as ruler of Sweden. The political slaughter had been designed to stifle Swedish resistance to the Union of Kalmar, which bound together Sweden, Denmark and Norway under one crown. But when the Dalecarlian peasants refused to believe young Vasa's tales of terror, he gave up hope of leading a revolt. Defeated, he strapped on his snowshoes and started the long, cold shuffle to Norway for refuge...
Enter, Caesar. Born in 1880, one of six children, Ivar Kreuger enjoyed a comfortable, humdrum boyhood in the forest-encircled town of Kalmar, Sweden. After cheating his way through school, and with an engineer's diploma in his pocket, Ivar began ricocheting around the globe. He did wiring jobs on Manhattan's Plaza and St. Regis Hotels, operated a restaurant -in Johannesburg. Back in Stockholm in 1908, he co-founded the building firm of Kreuger & Toll. Then he took over his family's three match factories, was shortly gobbling up competitors and building his giant Swedish match...
Hooray for Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx; Decca LP). Six zany songs by the team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, best known for such ditties as Three Little Words. Groucho's audible leer, set off by a barbershop quintet, works over Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Hackenbush and the immortal Show Me a Rose ("Or leave me alone...
...this particular movie the composing team portrayed is Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby of Tin Pan Alley fame. The stars are Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. Astaire provides the usual amount of softshoe and tap dancing at which he is still very adept, but Skelton is not as funny as usual. Since there is virtually no plot, your reaction to the film depends upon how well you like the songs and Astaire's dancing. To me, Astaire's light-footed work on the boards and his casual acting and singing make any picture he is in worth seeing...