Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere Franklin Roosevelt went, a well-meaning band was apt to burst into Home on the Range, thinking it his favorite song...
Last week Harry Truman found himself saddled with a theme song, too. When he stepped from his plane at San Francisco, the band wobbled through The Missouri Waltz. When he went to Independence, The Missouri Waltz (which was originally composed by an lowan, John Valentine Eppel) followed him. The Chicago publishers had to fill a rush order for scores from Missouri when the President got back home...
...shooting, a singing cowboy hero known as Melody Jones (Cooper). He doesn't sing much, and he doesn't so much sing as mumble shyly, but it is the first time in his 51 pictures that he has sung at all, and it's a good song (Old Joe Clark). But the audience knows something is amiss the first time Gary draws his shooting iron-and almost maims himself. Soon he is firing gags from both hips. As a feckless, peace-loving but irritatable cowboy, he gets into a series of half-serious, half-hilarious scrapes, climaxed...
Divorced. By Jennifer Jones, 26, Oscar-owning cinemactress (The Song of Bernadette): Robert Walker, 27, cinema juvenile (The Clock); after six years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
Rhapsody in Blue (Warner) is a finer memorial to the late, great George Gershwin than Hollywood, after its tinselly tributes to Chopin (A Song to Remember) and Victor Herbert (The Great Victor Herbert), might have been expected to accord. All the more praiseworthy because it deals with themes often fatal to good picturemaking, Rhapsody manages to portray a genius without groveling awe, to follow a rags to riches career without wallowing in melodrama, and to picture a warmly devoted, richly accented Jewish family on New York's lower East Side without slobberings of sentiment or catalepsies of caricature...