Word: salesgirl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candy Calling. There is nothing quite like Mindy in the upper regions of U.S. entertainment. She walks with the free & easy stride of the first-sacker on a girls' high-school baseball team (which she once was), approaches the microphone like a polite salesgirl (which she also was) addressing a customer. About half the time, Mindy is not at her best. She still has to jog the echoes of half a dozen better-known singers out of her ears; but in top form, her voice is clear as spring water...
Mindy's start was not promising: the leader of The Bronx's James Monroe High School band said she was "not good enough" to sing with his outfit. Mindy believed him, meekly took a job as salesgirl in a Manhattan candy shop. After the Christmas rush, she went to Miami to visit her aunt. A nightclub owner heard her singing with the rest of her party, offered her a job. A scared 17, she answered: "I have to go back to work." But work at the candy shop was never the same again. Mindy quit, and her parents...
...another good old Metro musical, in turn-of-the-century costume, featuring Van Johnson and Judy Garland. By day Van is an up & coming salesman in a Chicago music store. At night he carries on an anonymous lonely-hearts correspondence with an unknown lady. Judy, a salesgirl in the same shop, is also a lonely-heart. Before they discover that they are writing to each other, a foreseeable number of comic situations have been run through the wringer...
...story is about a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith (Melvyn Douglas) who gets caught in some badly directed crossfire between two Manhattan songbirds (Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame). When Maureen suddenly loses her voice, she and Douglas discover Gloria, a seductive salesgirl with a gold-plated larynx. Under their high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch...
Later she dropped from the sight of her socialite friends, called herself "Agnes Homberg," and spent months as a cashier, department-store detective and salesgirl. What she found out ran in Liberty magazine, then owned by her father and Cousin Bertie McCormick, as a series on how to get a job. She was married twice in her 20s, to James Simpson Jr., son of a onetime board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., and to Broker-Aviator Joseph W. Brooks, and divorced them...