Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century-Fox) provides a hackneyed but handsome vehicle for a number of Hollywood virtuosos, notably Brazilian Dancer Carmen Miranda and the plug-ugly king of illiterary men, William Bendix. Resplendently decked out in Technicolor, the film is a gaudy, expensive improvisation on the oft-told story about a cafe singer (newcomer Vivian Elaine) who yearns to be a musicomedy queen, and a struggling composer (Don Ameche) who wants to have his concerto played at Carnegie Hall...
Born on Manhattan's Third Avenue 40 years ago, Bendix was the son of a singer, had one uncle who was a concert violinist, another who was a conductor at the Metropolitan. Spurning the family profession, he started life as a bat-boy for the New York Giants, later did some amateur acting at the Henry Street Settlement. He became a grocery clerk while still in his teens, eventually wound up as manager of a store in Orange...
...House. An excited urchin snatches Goodman's clarinet, is chased to a tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy have not forgotten him. At regular intervals, Goodman & band offer welcome distraction from this quavery little...
...Morton Downey's father was fire chief of Wallingford, Conn. At six, Morton got $1 for singing at a local minstrel show. "That money," says he, "made a terrific impact on me." Since then Downey claims to have gotten "more mileage" out of his voice than any other singer in the business...
...British Lion 20th Century-Fox) illuminates a dark corner of the invasion of North Africa. Its heroine (Carla Lehmann), a Kansas-born sculptress, hides a fugitive Englishman (James Mason) from the local Nazi chief (Walter Rilla). Later she snitches a small camera from the lair of a collaborationist nightclub singer (Enid Stamp-Taylor). A lot of people are interested in this camera, because it contains film which shows the location of the seaside house in which General Mark Clark and his colleagues are soon to rehearse signals for the invasion. Dapper Nazi Rilla and his henchmen energetically hound its bearers...