Word: levant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were married, thus ending the plot, part I. Plot, part II, almost brings the band to New York and the big time, but just at the opportune moment November 1929 comes along and brings a depression. Plot, part III, finally gets the band into the big time when Oscar Levant, erst-while pianist, takes over a brick factory which makes money, apparently better than music as the means to the band's success...
...Brien and the Andrews Sisters, and the photographing had been done in technicolor, the picture could have been billed as an extravaganza. As it is it isn't even colossal, but there are times when it activates a grudging smile, and once or twice even a warm chuckle. Levant's cynicism is two-dimensional: in his role and for his role. This, by all accounts, is a good thing, taking the mind off the pins and needles of a sleeping leg. Dan Dailey carries the burden of the show, and proves his worth as a song and dance...
...Jolson is half as lively in front of a microphone as he is in conversation around his Hollywood swimming pool, Kraft need not worry. The agency is spending at least $20,000 a week on the show, in which Al is supported by acid-tongued Pianist Oscar Levant. Kraft offered Al a fat four-year contract, without options, 39 weeks a year, with two weeks off in every...
...Leave It, Jimmy Durante, Your Hit Parade). Comedy will continue to be NBC's long suit (Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Amos 'n' Andy). Glossiest and one of the most ballyhooed of the new NBC shows: the Kraft Music Hall, with Al Jolson and Oscar Levant...
...injured. He knew that Hughes succeeded Taft as Chief Justice. He recited from Byron's Maid of Athens, Burns's Tarn o'Shanter and Moore's The Time I've Lost in Wooing. He sang I Surrender, Dear and Dixie, until snippety Oscar Levant gasped: "From now on call me The Pretender." Neither Levant nor John Kieran nor Franklin P. Adams had a lookin. Everyone agreed that he was wonderful...