Word: schmalzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left, by Richard Tauber, romantic tenor who made a few fortunes singing champagne-&-waltz schmalz in Viennese operettas: $9,962.16, no will...
Charles Boyer, who is at once a master of schmalz and a very good actor, gives the picture such tone and unity as it has. Miss Bergman occasionally breaks loose with an eager bit of acting, but it is seldom persuasive. As an international tramp, she is as badly miscast as Boyer would be as an All-America fullback; and she is as tactlessly gowned as she is cast...
Yours Is My Heart (music by Franz Lehar; book and lyrics by Ira Cobb and Karl Farkas; produced by Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and lushness, its plot a dateless inanity, its humor a primordial ghastliness. Shifting from a tacky Paris to a chop-suey Peiping, its romance of a French opera singer (Stella Andreva) and a Chinese prince gets snarled in dramatic difficulties long before it bogs in dynastic ones. Out of the debris...
Adventure. Garson gets Gable and the customers get schmalz (TIME...
...varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...