Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once established, this comic mood splits the plot wide open. Billy Ross (Walter Catlett), nightclub impresario, gets a birthday greeting from Miss Dunne, orders her to report for rehearsals. Another switch, and in a wonderfully nonsensical scene he hires her to be his lyrical phone girl...
Cafe society's Patricia Anne ("Honeychile") Wilder went bankrupt for $8,212.24-mostly clothes and a $600 phone bill. ≤≤ Tallulah Bankhead took her lion cub to the zoo for a publicity shot, got bitten by a chimpanzee...
...Dick and Harry (RKO Radio) is homespun Ginger Rogers' first picture since her Oscarization. That Hollywood halo has not noticeably affected good old Ginger. She is still the epitome of the U.S. working girl-nonchalant, wise-eyed, self-sufficient, heaven-protected. Her performance as Janie The Beautiful Phone Girl, whose moonstruck propensity for accepting honorable proposals lands her in three simultaneous engagements, is adroitly comic...
...Murphy) is a serious young automobile salesman with a talent for getting barely perceptible promotions and a tendency to hiss Hitler at the movies. When he threatens to commit suicide if his proposal is rejected, she is really interested, asks breathlessly: "How?" Later, unraveling her fiancé with a phone-girl friend, she concludes: "I think maybe he gets promoted too much...
...down the phone and tap with your foot on the floor, diminuendo. That is Nosey going away to find the doctor. You may breathe naturally now and think the matter out. After a suitable interval you tap on the floor with your foot again, this time crescendo, pick up the phone, and (a) gripping the nose as before: 'I'm sorry, the doctor isn't in at present. Can I take a message, Mum?' or (b) in your own voice: 'Hullo, Jones, about that match on Saturday...