Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preliminary reviews were deprecatory enough, nevertheless, to convince the producers that they had better keep Silk Stockings out-of-town until they remedied its major defects. Composer Cole Porter consequently has had to write six new songs to substitute into his score--a score which, despite a jukebox hit called "All of You," is still indisputably inferior to his previous successes. And the book, a parody on Soviet ways adapted from the famous Greta Garbo movie Ninotchka, has undergone so much scene-shuffling and rewriting at the hands of co-author Abe Burrows that at one point he eliminated...
...diplomatic exchange between David and the Egyptian ambassador, and Spain's censor worried because the film was based entirely on the Old Testament. The moral standards in India oppose any dance sequences "if there is a shaking," as well as all drinking. In the "Student Prince," for example, a song was dropped only because beer was mentioned. Sometimes a foreign government directly interfers, as when King Farouk, discomforted with the vivid portrayal of a slovish Nero, put thumbs down on "Quo Vadis." In all, many countries outlaw more American films than they admit, and sometimes pay for a portion...
...noisily chose a presidential candidate for next October's election. The nominee Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, samba-dancing, spellbinding governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais. After the balloting (1,646 to 0, with 279 abstentions), Kubitschek's followers roared his longtime political theme song, Peixe Vivo (Living Fish), an old Portuguese ballad...
...singing of the medieval Sainte Marie, Alonso de Mudarra's Triste estaba, and Oswald v. Wolkenstein's Der May. The last is one of the oldest descriptive pieces, wherein the calls of many birds are imitated at great speed, in the manner of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song...
Married. Dan Dailey, 37, Hollywood song-and-dance star (There's No Business Like Show Business); and Gwen O'Connor, 28, ex-wife of Cinemactor Donald O'Connor; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...