Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week 29-year-old Betty Hutton was a $260,000-a-year movie star on the verge of her splashiest success. She was still going strong on the momentum she had picked up on the wrong side of the tracks. Her relentless determination to get to the top had flung her from speakeasies to street-singing to bandstands, then onto Broadway and into the startled public eye as the frenzied high priestess of a nameless chaos-with-music that has been wrongly called jitterbugging...
...Technicolor. In the opening sequence, while the sound track pulses with the three sailors' exultant verses of New York, New York ("A wonderful town"),* the camera carries them from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Rockefeller Center, dovetailing the sights into an exciting flow that piles up both momentum and atmosphere...