Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during the occupation had chosen to enjoy a comfortable life in their midst...
Some of the picture is harmless but not specially interesting fun. A lot of it is considerably better than that. Vera-Ellen, who has never had much acting to do before, makes her love affair more real, individual and touching than most ingenues manage even in nonmusicals. Singer Dick Haymes also plays his role for a good deal more than an excuse to break into song. Miss Revere and Messrs. Naish and Romero are much more human, too, than musical films are supposed to require; and Celeste Holm adds a welcome dash of lemon juice...
...battered into the most odious of film categories, the movie biography has had its face lifted by Columbia in "The Jolson Story," and emerges almost unrecognizable and completely vindicated. Jolson himself recorded the songs, and he still packs more life, rhythm, and excitement, note for note, than any other singer around. Combined with Larry Parks' delivery, which old-time Broadwayites claim to be phenomenally like that of the man who was the biggest boxoffice draw of his times, Jolson's voice accounts for the excellence of about half the picture...
Rather than ask his wife for a divorce, the doctor fakes his own accidental death in order to live with Singer Nora Prentiss. He fakes it so clumsily that he is accused of his own murder. In still another accident, he gets so badly scarred that his own wife doesn't recognize him. He refuses to defend or identify himself and swears Nora to secrecy...
...life he could never have . . . that one saw there were whole regions of his mind that could only be expressed in music. . . . He had no such large voice as John McCormack, who had won the competition they both had entered.* But for emotional expressiveness Joyce was the most effective singer I have ever heard...