Word: reno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chic-sexy nightclub singer and the first black actress to star in her own television series (NBC's Julia); by Fredde Glusman, 39, the prosperous Las Vegas haberdasher who married her four months ago, shortly after Carroll broke her engagement to Talk Show Host David Frost; in Reno...
Even though it was held in the Convention Center at Reno's Harrah's Hotel, it was a small party by show-biz standards. But as bar mitzvahs go, it was everything a 13-year-old boy could ask for-tables laden with Jewish delicacies; $10,000 in savings bonds, as well as expensive doodads from 400 admiring guests. It was all for Mark Sidney Davis, the adopted son of Actress May Britt and black Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., who was converted to Judaism in 1954. Sammy toasted May and his present wife, Altovise, a singer, then presented...
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...Anything Goes, Billy Crocker, sometime employee of the wealthy Mr. Elisha Whitney, comes to the liner to see off his boss and the evangelist-turned-torch singer, Reno Sweeney. Finding that Hope Harcourt, the love of his life, is aboard ship, Billy decides to travel, too. When Moonface Martin, travelling with submachine gun in violin case as the Reverend Doctor Moon, provides Billy with a ticket and berth, more problems are created than solved. The ticket belonged to Public Enemy Number 1, who never showed for the voyage; now everyone is chasing after Billy, who becomes sailor, chef...
...rousing the company with a Heaven Hop, Lise Landis is the tops as Moonface's gun moll. Playing the frocked gangster, Bill Nolan displays a hilarious good-hearted gooniness. Ann Ungar is an entertainer playing an entertainer; though she is sometimes a little too charming, she's splendid as Reno. As Billy and Hope, Richard von Rueden and Kerry McCarthy sing well, but the shallowness of the female lead at least can't be entirely the fault of the authors -- McCarthy looked completely disinterested through the whole show...