Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers to return to work at the next 5:30 a.m. shift and sent two soldiers to raise an American flag over the carbarn where the strikers made their headquarters. As the flag flapped up to the top of the pole one of the strikers began to sing the Star Spangled Banner. About 2,000 shirt-sleeved, sweaty strikers joined in. Even James McMenamin seemed affected. He jumped up, shouting in a voice hoarsened by three days of strike exhortations...
Making a troupe slightly reminiscent of the Andrews Sisters but looking the way the Sistors A must have always wanted to look-the girls sing and swing through one of the fastest moving and zaniest comedies we've seen for quite some time. Betty Hutton does herself up brown by way of making new endurance records-90 minutes without standing still-and by doing an effective drunk scene that made us head for the nearest bar as soon as the show was finished. Dorothy Lamour looks a little strange in pinafores, after sarong in sarongs, but she is able...
Seen awhile back as the brattish younger sister in "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," Diana Lynn has been doing leg exercises, and turns up very well as a not-so-brutish younger sister who can rally sing and play the piano. The girl ought to go far. Mimi Chandler seems to have been inserted solely to differentiate the Angels four from the many feminine tri-vocal ensembles. No other reason is apparent...
Good entertainment based on an old style, "And the Angels Sing" left us satisfied. The photography was good and contained some very effective background blackout shots which brightened up the whole show; all this in contrast to the "Secrets of Scotland Yard," the added attraction, which kills off the only good actor, C. Aubrey Smith, in the first reel, thereby losing all chance of becoming anything more than the Grade C picture it was intended...
Above all, Father Finn believes that choristers should enjoy what they sing. "After many years' opportunities to observe the strange processes of men's, minds," he declares, "I find the indeliberate travesty of groaning the praises and promises of Jehovah an inexplicable phenomenon...