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...sweetheart of World War II was on her way to another front-the Caribbean. When Frances Langford gets there the next week or so, she can expect the same kind of admiration she has inspired in homesick doughboys from Alaska to Sicily. No other female entertainer in World War II can touch it. "She knows just how much sex to pour and still be dignified," is Bob Hope's explanation. General Eisenhower, who has misgivings about women entertainers at the front, was so moved by her impact upon his North African troops that he thanked her warmly, "especially...
...record-breaking 562 benefits in two years. Probably the first entertainer to work with the armed forces, Hope has also been the most frequent. Using trains, cars, trucks, tanks, jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When, at the last moment, it looked as if the tour would fall through, Hope wired Lieut. General Simon B. Buckner: WE SING, DANCE, TELL STORIES; HAVE TUXEDOS; WILL TRAVEL; CAN WE PLAY YOUR CIRCUIT? They played it straight through to tiny...
Sometimes head & heart worked together. When a wounded kid in a hospital busted out crying while Frances Langford was singing, Hope broke the agonized silence that followed by walking up & down between the beds saying: "Fellas, the folks at home are having a terrible time about eggs. They can't get any powdered eggs at all. They've got to use the old-fashioned kind you break open...
White Cargo (M.G.M.) is the second screen version of one of the worst and most successful plays of the '205. Starchy, ambitious young Langford (Richard Carlson) goes out to the Congo, around 1910, to help run a rubber plantation. As he disembarks from the Congo Queen his unstarched predecessor is carried aboard, toes turned up, Britain-bound. Says young Langford: "Blahsted hot today." His new boss Witzel (Walter Pidgeon) moves off, moaning "I was waiting for that phrase." Witzel gives Langford the advice needed to keep Empire whole and hale: "Never let the [native] men see you are afraid...
Under the influence of Tondelayo, young Langford gets lazy with the razor, easy with the bottle and sloppy with his ducks. When Tondelayo dances for him the Temptation of St. Anthony looks like a game of pease-porridge-cold. After young Langford marries her. she stops calling him awyla ("my man"), whines for new bangles, begs him to beat her. When he refuses, she starts calling the unwilling Witzel awyla, does her best to poison her husband. By the time his starchy successor is saying "Blahsted hot today," superheated Langford is steaming down the Congo, Britain-bound...