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...They didn't have halos, they didn't have wings, but what they didn't have, they didn't need," and the Angel sisters from Glenby Falls didn't have plenty of what they didn't need. Paramount, however, had Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Diana Lynn, and Mimi Chandler...
...Married. Mimi Chandler, 17, torch-singing Hollywood starlet (And the Angels Sing), daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler; and Army Ferry Command Major John Cabell, 27, cousin of Novelist (James) Branch Cabell; in Los Angeles...
...Angels are four sisters of that name in Glenby Falls, N.Y. They want to help their widowed father buy a farm where he can indulge his passion for raising soybeans. Nancy Angel (Dorothy Lamour) wants to be an artist, Bobby (Betty Hutton) an ace reporter, Patti (Mimi Chandler) a Shakespearean actress, Josie (Diana Lynn) a composer. Between daydreams and quarrels they pick up spare cash by staging musical acts at a local roadhouse. There they run afoul of a transient bandleader, Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who promptly advises Cinemactress Lamour: "Let's not fight this thing...
...also mentioned the fact that four of my main roles in opera-Mimi, Tosca, Manon and Louise-have certainly been sung better by other people. Do you mean Melba as Mimi, Muzio as Tosca, Sibyl Sanderson as Manon, and Mary Garden as Louise? Some of those people never sang at the Metropolitan, but they did create the golden memories of the past...
Grace Moore ultimately became the U.S. moviegoer's idea of a great opera star. Music critics have always deplored her dramatic extravagances and lack of vocal subtlety. Of the four roles for which she is known (Mimi, Tosca, Manon, Louise), all have been sung better by others. Her finest performance is her ebullient interpretation of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, in which she was carefully coached by the composer...