Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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André quickly learned the tricks of composing with a stopwatch in his hand. Last year, he got his first big breaks: scoring music for The Hucksters, playing piano in Frank Sinatra's It Happened in Brooklyn...
...help the publicity campaign along, a couple of holy statues in the church where she lies turn, with a mysterious rumble, as if to get a better look at her. The simple folk of the congregation are sure it is a miracle. Their priest (Frank Sinatra) is afraid the floor just sagged, and makes a carefully equivocal statement about the incident. But whether or not the miracle is good enough for Mother Church, it is plenty good enough for Hollywood. Arrangements are made to release the picture right away, the receipts to go into the finest hospital money...
Alida Valli, as anybody can see, is a beautiful young woman. She may be a. good actress as well, but she can never prove it in such pictures as this. Frank Sinatra, looking rather flea-bitten as the priest, acts properly humble-or perhaps ashamed. Most of the other performers have handled garbage before and have little if any shame; Lee J. Cobb, a good actor under all circumstances, even manages to make a believable man out of his cinemagnate...
Author Marks is a bit more skeptical of hypnotism's pure power for good. He reports some hypnotic cures, but links them with faith healing. He also thinks that phenomena like the appeal of such different people as Hitler and Sinatra can be explained by mass hypnotism...
...bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout of the year: Frank Sinatra, who wasn't even listed among Billboard's eight top male singers...