Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vito Marcantonio, the most vocal Communist-line member of Congress, and left-wing Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (husband of boogie-woogie Pianist Hazel Scott) had won not only the Democratic and American Labor Party primaries, but the Republican as well...
Americans in Moscow, who have heard Eddy Rozner's dzhaz, were inclined to think that Izvestia had something there. Eddy's band has a good hot fiddler, a talented pianist, and an uncertain beat. Its arrangements, based on 5-&-10? store sheet music of U.S. hits which reach the U.S.S.R., is either imitative of U.S. jazz circa 1930, or unrecognizable...
...considerable singing talents of a freshfaced young actress named Jane Powell. Jane plays the adolescent daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (Walter Pidgeon). The plot relentlessly examines her kittenish romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest), piano selections by Iturbi and rumbas led by Xavier Cugat (played by Xavier Cugat...
...really did it. In the process they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts, and is treated, on a visit to a grade-B hot spot...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind pianist-mimic, with Songstress Jo Stafford as guest star...