Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the music is rather routine, though probably Hit Parade-ish, and the usual sprinkling of classical warhorses, such as the Bell Song from "Lakme" is tossed in, too. But no doubt the bobbysoxers will be wild about this one. Not only is their quondam idol, Frankie Sinatra, displayed prominently, but a newer dreamboy, a fellow named Peter Lawford with a British accent and massive triangular eyebrows, also cavorts about...
...Frank Sinatra prepared to get out of a rut with a majestic leap. In Hollywood's The Miracle of the Bells he would play a priest, and not sing a note...
Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
...Happened in Brooklyn (MGM) features Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson at the tops of their respective voices. It needn't have bothered, so far as the box office is concerned, to do anything more. What little more it does is nearly all to the good. Aside from an overdose of jokes about Brooklyn, everything about the picture is not only unobjectionable but, in a modest way, definitely enjoyable...
...Sinatra, as usual, is a shy type who fails to get the girl; he not only sings with great effectiveness (best new song: Time After Time), but performs naturally and unaffectedly. Durante, as a high-school janitor, hasn't much to do beyond proving, without any strain, that he is one of the most likable entertainers in the business. Miss Grayson, prettier and more animated than ever, warbles an aria from Lakmé like an eisteddfod of thrushes, and does even better by Mozart's Lá Ci Darem la Mano, in which she is supported by Sinatra...