Word: manassas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald O'Connor continues to prove himself a Mickey Rooney with some unspoiled, big-Adam's-apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing I'll Get By over the short waves, soothes the entire planet in generously buttered mush. Ted Lewis talks through his top hat, and everybody who has ever...
...Hannah Williams Dempsey came out for the third and last round of her divorce trial fagged but trim. After chief co-respondent Benny Woodall disclaimed any & all connection with the Dempseys' "martial troubles," the onetime show girl took the stand to tell how the Manassa Mauler once sent her guests home in an ambulance, once suggested an illegal operation to her, once tossed her into a closet, once waved a gun at her (she said she told him to "Take one good shot and end my misery"). When a candid photo of her with Benny and his sister...
...almost straight history. Yellowed newsreel shots of the Dempsey-Willard prize fight are used for the apocryphal ringside broadcast that brings fame and riches to Oakie's cat-whisker station. They are a jolting reminder of the scorching Fourth of July in 1919 when the crop-haired Manassa Mauler, then 24, carved a world's heavyweight championship out of mountainous Jess Willard in just three bitter rounds. They are the best refashioning of history ever contrived by Producer Zanuck...