Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Sinatra's effect on Italians (as reported by Stars and Stripes): in Rome, a group of swoon-aged maidens listened imperviously to a Sinatra record, requested Home on the Range...
Story: 22 hungry actors are interned in a Manhattan hotel by a large unpaid bill. A backer appears with a check (rubber) and a protégée (Anne Jeffreys) who falls for The Voice. Even Sinatraddicts may gasp at the shots in which reluctant Mr. Sinatra and enthusiastic Miss Jeffreys practically reenact the Fall of Man in a telephone booth...
Soon the check bounces. So does the bobbysock idol, who is tossed about by accelerated slapstick like a Boy Scout in a blanket. In less tumultuous moments he sings, dances, makes love simply, smiles. These accomplishments are more or less superfluous. As shuddering exhibitors remember from his first picture, Sinatra's name on the marquee is sufficient to guarantee lipsticky posters on the outside, moaning galleryites within...
Step Lively (RKO-Radio), Frank Sinatra's second picture, converts the hit stage play Room Service into a black & white musical which spoofs the show business, itself and its hero...
Frankie Carle and his latest version of Sinatra kept a lot of us entertained, it seems, George Trudeau, after two shows said he just wanted to hear him again and again. Ralph Lang and Jack Gordon had the same to say, only more so. That guy described by Bob Shepard to be "high soprano and rather soft" must have had something. Al Ogden from Jersey explained it with "merely a cultural lag stimulated by movements about the microphone...