Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers knew his history. He was born in a tenement on Manhattan's lower East Side, the son of poor immigrants from Italy. But his father, a musician named Achille LaGuardia, joined the U.S. Army and became bandmaster of the 11th Infantry Regiment; Fiorello's boyhood was spent in Arizona Army posts. It was a good boyhood. He learned music (all his life he worshiped opera, and as mayor he took delight in leading bands and orchestras). He also rode half-wild range horses and learned early that brashness could be a substitute for size...
Songsmith Loesser thinks of himself as a kind of folk musician of the jukebox, capturing "topical feelings." He likes to think that he avoids "idealizing the romantic. Of course, I slip every now and then, and turn out something like Moon of Manakoora...
Actress June Haver, who married a musician last March in Las Vegas and then married him again in Hollywood, said she would now divorce him. Alan Stephan, "Mr. America of 1946," married Grace Pomazal, "Miss Quick Freeze." Hedy Lamarr's estranged husband, Actor John Loder, who had been pricked in a dueling scene, had a sword-tip cut from his thigh. And Actor Chester Morris broke his leg in two places dancing at a children's party...
...like the one I gave is just a sales talk unless you're such a tremendous talent it sweeps everything before you; and I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart." The critics agreed. The New York Herald Tribune's critic wrote: "An unusually promising young musician whose talent seems to be following a normal and judicious course of development, he should become an artist of exceptional consequence...
...Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi, she-and her husband-will be forever compromised. She and the audience know that it was a perfectly innocent night she spent with the musician-but will the British voters believe it? These faintly lubricous difficulties are ultimately straightened out in a court trial...