Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find rich and personable parents to adopt her. Randall is unmarried and the only eligible girl on board, Susan Parker (Alice Faye), is already engaged and traveling with her future mother-in-law. This does not dishearten Ching-Ching. She shows Randall and his valet (Arthur Treacher) how to sing a lullaby, goes sightseeing in Hongkong and voices a few proverbs, which detective picture addicts will recognize as from the Chanese. Sample: "A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder." When Susan Parker and Tommy Randall arrange a marriage of convenience for the honor of becoming...
Gordon and Revel songs, amiable dialog by a trio of ace screen writers, adroit direction by William Seiter and effortless acting by a sophisticated cast give Stowaway a quality recent Temple pictures have lacked, of simple, unself-conscious charm. Good shot: Randall and valet, having failed to sing Shirley Temple to sleep, nodding when she croons Good Night, My Love...
...sing-dance-or act? If you can, it's a well established fact That Uncle Sam will take you in- Break you in- Make you in-to Anything you could desire. Uncle Sammy wants to hire- Actors with dramatic fire- Singers who to fame aspire- Dancers who can kick-but higher. Uncle Sam will take a flier- Which is why we all inquire- "Say Can You Sing-Dance...
...this character is a veteran ham determined to spend lots of government money on actors in spite of the "Secretary of the Budget," Al Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists Sid Kuller and Ray Golden expect Comedian Whitehead to put across. Inviting a "fine feathered frenzy" to "cut himself a piece of throat and make himself at home," Whitehead observes that "only God can make a trio...
Once the audience has overcome its inclination to wince whenever Comedian Whitehead opens his mouth, O Say Can You Sing? has some genuinely entertaining moments. Most professional episode is a ballet called "Renaissance," ably danced by talented and personable Grace & Kurt Graff. A little chocolate drop named Baby Marie Brown steals the first act finale, Grandma's Goin' to Town, by singing and dancing disguised as a midget mammy. The ingenue role is performed by Grace Herbert, a good-looking local night club entertainer, who delivers some of Composer Phil Charig's imperative tunes, among the best...