Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jolson Story. A big, noisy, colorful entertainment, with sound track by the Jazz Singer himself (TIME...
Lining up next to him in the tackle slot is Mort Singer, on the other side at center, Bill Sharpe, and at end appears Hugh McCaffery. The only thing of note about these men to a non-Kirkland rooter is that they all played on the pre-war house squad. And they all carry around 190 units of avoirdupois...
Both boys are in love with the same beautiful blonde (Joan Caulfield). She admires Fred's hoofing, as who does hot? But no lady could be expected to hold out against Bing's crooning. Married, singer and girl plunge into a peculiar marital conflict. Bing makes his living by buying & selling successful nightclubs. He plainly enjoys his work and does well enough at it to provide the little woman with striking Edith Head gowns and the smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing...
...then taught Bing to mimic the standin. Astaire's considered critique of Crosby's hoofing: "Bing is a wonderful performer. His dancing tickles me to death. But if I said he was a good dancer, it would be the same as Bing calling me a good singer...
...Jolson Story. A big, loud, colorful show, with sound track by the Jazz Singer himself (TIME...