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...year-old Deanna Durbin, Universal's sweetish nightingale, also happens to be its biggest box-office asset. Last week her studio faced a nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Serious, handsome Jay C. got Professional Songwriter Harry Harris (collaborator in the current hit: Baby Me), told him what he wanted. Last week he had it: a baleful ditty, words and music by Harris, fervent approval by pop-eyed Songster Eddie Cantor, title by Hormel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Spam for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul's lissome wife Irene (Sigrid Gurie) to resume her career as a cabaret songster, both to plot Paul's release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...quiet day. I'll probably lunch with mummy (Mrs. Frederic Watriss)*and go to the theatre with my grandmother, Lady Williams-Taylor, but that's all. I haven't decided yet what I'll wear." She was still undecided at noon when a Postal Telegraph songster arrived with flowers and caroled Happy Birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Howdy Stranger (by Robert Sloane & Louis Pelletier Jr.; Theodore J. Hammerstein, Denis Du-For and Robert Goldstein, producers) presents Frank Parker, a radio singer with an amiable voice which seems to have accustomed itself to a microphone. The story deals with a cowboy songster who was born in Flatbush but poses as a genuine product of Wyoming. When his nativity is called in question, he is required to prove himself by riding a horse at a rodeo. Having a psychopathic fear of animals, he is able to pass this test only with the aid of a hypnotist. Since Singer Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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