Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sobbing, protesting his innocence, Campbell was dragged off to prison. His family eventually went on relief. As Sing Sing Prisoner No. 95111, Campbell scrubbed floors, taught English, helped the prison psychiatrist. He gave up hope of ever proving his innocence. After three years and four months behind the grey walls, he was paroled. That was almost four years...
...dimpled blind boy visited the base regularly during the winter, and made a great hit with his music, his chatter and his imitations of Jimmy Durante. In return the Americans taught him to play boogie and sing Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Then they decided to give him a real education. (A Boston businessman is helping pay the costs...
...cture has all the makings of the genuine article: a pretty, sharpshooting cowgirl (Loretta Young), a vicious bandit (Dan Duryea), a stagecoach holdup, posses, fast horses, plenty of shooting, a singing cowboy hero known as Melody Jones (Cooper). He doesn't sing much, and he doesn't so much sing as mumble shyly, but it is the first time in his 51 pictures that he has sung at all, and it's a good song (Old Joe Clark). But the audience knows something is amiss the first time Gary draws his shooting iron-and almost maims himself...
...Marinka" is the fourth offspring of the modern classic "Oklahoma" and by far the worst. The first three, "Bloomer Girl," "Sing Out Sweet Land," and "Carousel," each borrowed stars, writers, and choreographers from "Oklahoma" and each kept up the healthy, vigorous atmosphere...
...whose famed Wagnerian ho-yo-to-hos have not resounded in the Metropolitan Opera since she joined her husband in Nazi-held Norway four years ago, planned to return to the U.S. "to see my daughter [by a previous marriage - Mrs. Elsa Dusenberry of Bozeman, Mont.] if not to sing." Flagstad managed to keep herself politically neutral by refusing to sing for Nazi audiences, but her wealthy quisling husband, Henry Johansen, was less successful: his one-week imprisonment in a Gestapo concentration camp last February was described by Norwegian patriots as a "face-saving maneuver," during which he lived...