Word: parlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mice in this version are blonde, lithe Carole Landis, and blonder, plumper Betty Grable, cast as leggy cheesecake queens of a Texas highway hot-dog stand, who try to parlay a small legacy into a millionaire husband. Unfortunately, their daily double (Don Ameche) is scratched. He was a millionaire until his family business folded, day before yesterday...
Except for an occasional nightclub outing with Dixie, he spends his evenings at home with the family telling the boys bedtime stories in Crosbyesque slang. One night Little Red Riding Hood finally gets "hep" that the wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...