Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...script leaves little room for love interest. Dorothy Malone, who ends up marrying Kennedy, hardly gets past the threshold of the plot. But Alexis Smith, as a sultry barroom singer with her lids at half-mast and her lips provocatively ajar, weaves more prominently in & out of the all-male hubbub. Eventually, her shady morals and mascara notwithstanding, she becomes the wife of Rancher McCrea. The highly involved plot in South of St. Louis, always pretty implausible, moves along at a fast enough clip to look convincing, and most of the principals are old enough hands at this sort...
...Manhattan for an Overseas Press Club dinner in his honor, George C. Marshall was asked to name a couple of favorite songs. Singer Jessica Dragonette bypassed one choice, Rock of Ages, sang his other favorite, Buttons and Bows...
Bullets & Strain. Most of the best gags are delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear...
...eleven, she joined the "Kracker Kids Kabaret" and won a small reputation as a juvenile torch singer. Then, at 14, her voice broke during an attack of laryngitis; it came out, says Vera, "slightly lower and not so noisy...
There is some pathos in the stffry of a widowed concert singer (Jeanette MacDonald) who sees her only son hit and killed by a truck, but the sentiment sours when the scripters make Jeanette a self-centered, self-pitying woman. There is also some promise in the relationship between the singer and an orphan boy (Jarman) whom she meets in the Carolina Mountains. But the association never quite comes off. For one thing, young Jarman is uncomfortably overgrown and incurably quaint, and he is pictured as a ninny. Perhaps the only character to live up to expectations is the general...