Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Benny, on U.S.O. tour in New Guinea with Cinemarmful Carole Landis, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Songstress Martha Tilton and Accordionist June Bruner, gave out with a few of his well-publicized violin notes for the benefit of a native and the photographers...
Shine On, Harvest Moon (Warners) turns the careers of vigorous Songstress Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and her songwriting husband Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) into a fictional clothesline on which to hang the hit tunes of the sporty, cheroot-fumed decades before World War I. Norworth's resurrected song hits are given too little of the original cornstarch, too much contemporary orchestral bluing, but the pretty, evocative title song and the swinging, swooping Take Me Out to the Ball Game may be around for quite a while. (Of four new songs, the likeliest is Time Waits...
Starring lovely brunette songstress Jane Pickens, the Naval Society's semi-annual smoker entertainment will take place at the Hasty Pudding Service Club tomorrow evening from 7:20 o'clock to the expiration of special liberty...
...prewar, with cracks about Vichy and a Nazi plot to put a rail road across the Sahara to Dakar. But it remains an amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader of the intransigent Riffs. But the pianist (who once fought for Loyalist Spain) turns out to have quite a way with the natives. El Khobar is not so black-hearted as black-faced and vocal. He and his tribesmen...
Married. Evelyn Nelson, baby-voiced songstress "Wee Bonnie Baker" (Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!); and First Lieut. John Morse, of the Army's Signal Corps; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...