Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touched by what one of the principals had surmised would be "a kind of phony beauty which would be nice." Surmiser John Barrymore was right. For five minutes, 35 seconds, seated at his special mike, leaning his tired head on his fingers and forgetting to ham it, he played Romeo to his blooming daughter Diana's Juliet. He had coached her for a week and she was good. In the brief respite from radio routine, everyone felt the bond between father and daughter, the oddity of the old love poetry, the Shakespearean depths of grace...
...without the other. The same is true of Jack Benny as "Charley's Aunt." Not that both the picture and Benny aren't screamingly funny--just that the picture would have been funnier with Jack Benny in something else and the same might be said of the Waukegan romeo...
...onetime chorus girl, four-a-day vaudeville toe dancer, radio Juliet to Leslie Howard's Romeo, Daughter Churchill, 26, is the wife of Austrian-born, U.S.-naturalized Comedian Vic Oliver. For his Sunday-night variety show over BBC she wrote her ballad, humming the melody while Husband Oliver strummed it on a piano. Best lines, as sung and recorded by oldtime Cinemactress Bebe Daniels...
During his eight solid years with Paramount, Bing has played every type of character from a river romeo (Mississippi) to a rough sketch of himself (Sing...
...explained to Egyptian reporters, bug-eyed at her jewels, "so I have installed a powerful radio receiver in a teashop near his cell." Every afternoon, the Beauty Queen dashed from court to teashop, turned on the radio full blast and sat yearning for her 35-year-old Iron Helmet Romeo...