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Word: levant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Insde U.S.A. (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy. Guest: Oscar Levant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist: Oscar Levant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...picture itself, it really is a fine job. Riches and ornament are lavished upon it but something sets it apart from the ordinary brassy Technicolor revue: possibly the plot, possibly the staging, possibly the perennial wisecracks of Oscar Levant. But however you look at it, credit will eventually bounce back on Astaire and Rogers. Cast as a bickering husband-wife stage team, these two leap, slide, and tap their way through scene after scene of pleasant comedy and wonderful dancing, and what's more, seem to enjoy...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...romantic Gershwin tunes which used to lift and carry their pictures along. Nevertheless, what is left makes much better entertainment than most cinemusicals. Except for a few slow spots, e.g., a flat-footed Scottish number in kilts and some noisy, slashing attacks on a concert grand by Pianist Oscar Levant, the show moves along at a lively clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Jeanne Grain has sensitive eyes, but she uses them with as little restraint as a ham singer's tremolo; her considerable charm needs good direction. All Dan Dailey needs is a good picture. Oscar Levant gets along all right, good show or bad, with his peculiar brand of vinegar. One obvious tip for those who make would-be "nostalgic" musical movies: the old arrangements for the old songs are fully as nostalgic as the melodies. Frequently the fancy new arrangements are terrible; always, they sabotage the nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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