Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chandelier-hung Cotillion Room of Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, 250 diners listened happily (some a little fuzzily) to Singer Margaret Scott. She sang three songs and two encores. Among the calla lilies and white leather banquettes, the only wartime note was a scattering of well-pressed uniforms. Then the blonde chanteuse started to sing Lili Marlene...
...middle-aged U.S. widow of a British title, sat at one of the white banquettes. With her was middle-aged Socialite Mary Hoyt Wiborg. When they heard the song, they hissed. Between hisses, they cried "No!" "Nazi!" "Don't sing that song!" "I won't have it!" Singer Scott, pretending she heard nothing untoward, kept on singing. The two protestant ladies up and marched...
Molly and Me (20th Century-Fox) is the story of an unemployed English music-hall singer (Gracie Fields), who becomes housekeeper to a wealthy grouch (Monty Woolley), fires his crooked servants, reconciles him with his sensitive son (Roddy McDowall), and comically disposes of his renegade wife (Doris Lloyd), who has returned to make trouble. At picture's end she has him so sweetened up and housebroken that he sits with her in the kitchen late of an evening, singing a pretty, foolish little song which advises you to eat when you're hungry, and sleep when...
...keep U.S. newspaper editors interested in Basso Pinza, his agents are now circulating a glossy, 60-page book which describes the singer as "a bronze Roman god come to life [and] one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world. . . ." He "sends chills down feminine spines." The press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity...
...ventures into the anti-Semitic Germany of 1938 in search of a twelve-year-old refugee's missing mother. On the way he finds himself framed on a murder charge, dragged from bed by the Gestapo, and cast into a Nazi prison. Help comes from a British night club singer who is the toast of Berlin and has no little influence with the military bigwigs of the hour. It is an engrossing story of international adventure that banks on neither unique turns of plot nor an overdose of suspense, but on sensitive personality portrayal and credible treatment...