Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bobby Breen in hand, told how he climbed from cold-water flats to Hollywood fame, then became a has-been at 13, when his voice changed ("There was panic in the studio"). At show's end Bobby, now 26, sets foot on the comeback trail by singing a song (his voice has not changed much) and lowering his head to hide the tears as Jessel, with a philanthropic touch, reads off the list of nightclubs and TV shows that are suddenly clamoring for the new Bobby Breen. Sponsors: Sealy, Inc. and Ekco Products...
...George and the Dragonet (Stan Freberg; Capitol). A parody of the portentous theme song of the radio and TV crime show, Dragnet, which comes on the heels of Ray Anthony's bestselling record of the same theme song (TIME, Sept. 28). The deadpan private eye, in this case St. George himself, sets out to haul in a dragon which has been devouring maidens out of season. On the reverse, Funnyman Freberg mimics the same crime-show mannerisms in telling the story of Little Blue Riding Hood ("the color has been changed to prevent an investigation...
...Torch Song (MGM) should make a lot of Joan Crawford's fans uncomfortable. Joan is miscast as a belligerent musi-comedy star who wears her heart on her fist; the fist is directed mainly at Michael Wilding. Fortunately, the camera decides most of the time that it is more fun to look at Actress Crawford's remarkable legs. Even this is an obvious mistake, for by reducing a performer of Joan's experience and hard-won skills to the cheesecake class, the picture stints her of the human qualities she has developed. Best scene: one in which...
...hall, his audience was, as usual, two-thirds women, from bobby-soxers to grandmothers. They basked happily as his performances washed over them: folk songs, show tunes and his own arrangements of such classics as Debussy's Clair de Lime and Grieg's Concerto, most of which he played with artfully simplified fingerwork in the frillier runs. For a topper, he opened up his laryngitic baritone in a perennial favorite of the middleaged, September Song. When it was all over, he dangled his feet over a corner of the stage, signed his pictures, shook hands and accepted embraces...
...slapstick phase, "The Red Peppers," involves a husband-wife song and dance team who have trouble getting bookings and losing their pride. All ends happily, though, as Kay Walsh and Ted Ray, playing the leads, succeed in turning on the sprinckler system and drenching the complaining manager...