Word: pitchman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposed to the usual musical comedy paste board people, Damn Yankees develops a stage full of entertaining characters. Ray Walston, as Applegate, seemed to me the best of all. A fast-talking pitchman with fire-red tie and sox, Walston has the cards, and all the best lines, stacked in his favor. Red-haired Gwen Verdon, as a witch Applegate imports from 'Chicago, sings a little and dances a lot. If you've heard "Whatever Lola Wants," you may have dismissed it is standard juke-box gruel. The meal may seem finer after you watch Miss Verdon grinding...
...Nordine is a fortunate fellow who enjoys double rewards for living a double life. Over national TV hookups, as a smooth-talking pitchman for deodorants, detergents and such (Stopette, Pamper Shampoo, Tunis), he earns, he figures, about $80,000 a year. But Nordine has his real fun and finds his real fans on his own show, which pays him practically nothing...
...conversation to boxing," admits Boxing Manager Jack Hurley. He ought to know. In 40 years of guiding good boxers, light-fisted clowns and human cauliflowers through the sweaty jungles of prizefighting, he has learned to use the language as effectively as a Sixth Avenue pitchman. Out of his rowdy-ringside wisdom he has fashioned some fine tigers, e.g., Lightweight Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolle. Sometimes he has taken a tame tabby, such as Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, and conned the public into believing he was a killer. With either breed of cat, Hurley has promoted many a rapid dollar...
...sour second Hurley showed disgust. "Feel around and see if you're still in bed," he snapped. Then the old pitchman started his spiel again. His "athalete," he told the reporters, was going to murder Cockell. The words flicked out sharper than a Matthews...
...Mallon (Steve Cochran), a pitchman for a U.S. carnival touring West Germany, catches a fraulein named Willie (Anne Baxter) picking his pocket and hustles her off the midway. He kisses her. "I've been kissed before," Willie moans with pleasure when he lets her go, "but never-uhhhhh!" Willie "tries to resist" -being, as the synopsis explains, "an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany." But Joe "arouses her beyond her powers of resistance . . . and like so many others before her," she is carried off to the conqueror...