Word: ona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Elitch's death in 1891, his widow switched to legitimate shows and nearly every personage in U. S. show business, from General & Mrs. Tom Thumb to Douglas Fairbanks, has at one time or another played Elitch's. This season's company features such names as Ona Munson and Kenneth MacKenna. Helen Bonfils, stage-struck heiress to the late Gambler Frederick Bonfils' Denver Post, will do bits...
This mild pleasantry is as excellently suited to Bing Crosby's mild acting talents as its soft Hawaiian tunes (Momi Pele, Okolehau, Nani Ona Pua) are suited to his deep warbling. Comedy is ladled out by Martha Raye, who distorts her vast mouth and yowls, and by Bob Burns, who to get laughs uses a pig named Wafford instead of his former "Bazooka." This amiable razorback is by far the funniest member of the trio, steals the show by oinking at suitable moments, winning a blue ribbon at a dog-show, then exhibiting a most distinctive canine trait when...
...infected her son Oswald, Mme Nazimova, now 56, manages to convey every shade of pride, courage and despair, by her trick of singing rather than speaking her lines, by the manifold gestures of her hands and even of her back. Her supporting cast-McKay Morris, Harry Ellerbe and pretty Ona Munson, fresh from musicomedy-seems to have caught fire itself from the sparks of her genius...
...King's amusing antics and handsome presence are admirably supported by the statuesque beauty of Doris Dalton as Ethel, the copious blonde-topped charms of Ona Munson as Clara, and tab-collared cinema Englishness of Leo Carroll as Sir James...
...hatchet and finally nailing the sandwich to the roof. An escalator then lowers Mr. Cook to the stage where he relates at length the trip he has just made from Cripple Creek, Colo.-"a good night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty in her voice, has stowed away in the cab. For her benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your...