Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jane Froman's subsequent struggles were amply retold in last year's Hollywood extravaganza, With a Song in My Heart. Her right leg was nearly severed, and for weeks she was near death. Then began a slow, painful recovery which included 25 operations, years in wheelchairs and on crutches. Finally she walked onstage again, but she still needs a heavy, ugly brace (she is now a $4,000-a-week TV star). In 1948 Jane divorced her husband, Singer Donald Ross, a month later married Pilot John C. Burn, a fellow survivor of the Lisbon crash...
...course, the Academy can only vote for those people and pictures already nominated, and the nominations often skip first-rate material. In the song department, for instance, the High Noon balled is easily best on the list, but the song sung by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Moulin Rouge did not even win a place on the ballots. Perhaps the Moulin Rouge balled would lose in the final vote, but surely it is more worthy of nomination than "Am I in Love" from Son Of Paleface...
...liquidated last week by the common fate of all men. The event was so big that only the simplest words could form his epitaph: he was the most powerful man of his time-the most feared and hated. He might have boasted in the words of the Roman song honoring Emperor Aurelian...
...with Jimmy Durante, Donald was signed as one of the rotating stars (the others: Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such top-budget musicals as Singin' in the Rain and Call Me Madam...
Cynthia Crawford '55: Moors; N.S.A. Alternate Delegate; P.B.H. International Activities Committee; French Club; Outing Club; Radio Radcliffe; "Drumbeats and Song...