Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Man with a Horn (Warner), which starts out to adapt the bestselling story of a jazz musician's integrity, winds up badly in need of some integrity of its own. Suggested vaguely by the career of the late great Bix Beiderbecke, Dorothy Baker's 1938 novel told the story of a hot trumpet virtuoso who is driven and destroyed by the monomania of a jazz perfectionist. The film makes the hero (Kirk Douglas) largely the victim of a bad woman (Lauren Bacall). He is saved by the love of a good one (Doris Day) in time...
...screen has produced since it learned to talk like a psychoanalyst, she marries Trumpeter Douglas and spreads the frustration around until he hits the bottle and the skids. Before Douglas' artily photographed descent into the Bowery, the picture drags in a sequence killing off the old Negro musician whom it has patronized all along...
...know states. She doesn't know that North Dakota is one of the states." At the next meeting, it was a father who rose up in wrath: "What I want to know is when my boy is going to get an education? He's a musician, but he doesn't know a noun...
Seldom had a musician been so honored-or had so richly deserved...
Pianist Harry S. Truman is "much too modest" about his skill as a musician, Conductor-Emeritus Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra said after visiting the White House. "We all know that he plays much better than he talks about...