Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substitute for an Edgar Bergen is a 16-year-old San Francisco girl, Shirley Faye Dinsdale, who, says the real Bergen, is "the best natural ventriloquist I ever saw." What impresses ventriloquists most is an unusual accomplishment-Shirley Dinsdale can actually make her puppet sing, in a clear, sweet soprano...
...Metcalfe (George Murphy) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) have one thing in common: they are smalltime song-&-dancers whose hearts are set on one day appearing at that Pantheon of U.S. vaudeville, The Palace. Jimmy is a sort of Irish George Raft, who loves Jo. Jo is a surprisingly sweet young girl, who unfortunately loves Harry. Harry is a dangerous but successful novelty in musicomedy: a character who begins as a squirrel-collared masher and winds up, without too much grinding of gears, as a hero. In the course of this cinemetamorphosis...
Maugham's story is no rose, either. Sanders plays Strickland as well as Strickland can be played, but this unmotivated, anglicized Gauguin doesn't smell very sweet by this name or any other. He acts more like a beachcomber than an artist and the only glimpse you get of his masterpieces supports this conclusion. He is fascinatingly immoral and bitter, but without reason, and, from what the film shows, his painting is secondary to chess, absinthe, and seduction...
Died. Mary Robison ("May Robson"), 84, veteran character actress, "dowager queen" of the screen and stage; in Beverly Hills. A small, sweet-faced woman with a diamond glint in her eye, she made her theatrical debut in Brooklyn in 1884, spent the rest of her life playing pathetic slaveys, sly grandmothers, iron-willed matriarchs, frowsy housewives and alcoholic old harridans. She reached stardom on the stage (in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary) when she was 49, reached Hollywood stardom (in Lady jor a Day) when she was 75. Two disclosures followed her death: she was six years older than...
...Sweet Sure-Fire. At the University of California, Assistant Music Professor Frances A. Wright examined 2,000 Latin American folk songs, discovered that every one of them sang of 1) el amor, 2) la luna...