Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, a 33-year-old Clairton, Pa. girl named Annabella Bucar announced that she had been secretly married to a Russian singer, quit her job in the U.S. Embassy to become a Soviet housewife. Back in the U.S. her father, an Austrian immigrant, immediately disowned...
...during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there. Margaret Truman begged off singing The Star Spangled Banner at both dinners because she had laryngitis. At the Mayflower, Opera Singer Helen Jepson sang Mighty Lak' a Rose, looking straight at Harry Truman the while...
...Roosevelt to prop up Propper. The best O'Dwyer could do was appeal to Wallace to come back to the Democratic Party. For his final rally, Isacson drew an overflow crowd of 8,500, who came to hear Wallace and such other notables of the far left as Singer Paul Robeson and Congressman Vito Marcantonio. At another rally the same night Prizefighter Champion Joe Louis, contributed $100 to the Wallace campaign...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...
Jeanne Grain has sensitive eyes, but she uses them with as little restraint as a ham singer's tremolo; her considerable charm needs good direction. All Dan Dailey needs is a good picture. Oscar Levant gets along all right, good show or bad, with his peculiar brand of vinegar. One obvious tip for those who make would-be "nostalgic" musical movies: the old arrangements for the old songs are fully as nostalgic as the melodies. Frequently the fancy new arrangements are terrible; always, they sabotage the nostalgia...