Word: teaser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cavalier some good. His part is that of an idle upper-cruster with an insatiable yen for detective work, so much so that he leads a double life, writing mysteries on the side. His research work leads him to an amusing set of experiences with an archaic strip-teaser and the murders which lurk in her wake. The picture is funny, inasmuch as Flynn is far more convincing as a playboy than as a knight-crrant...
Biggest hits were two features not in the Fair edition: Strip-Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee, and the ancient vaudeville comedy team of Willie West & McGinty (whom Showman Rose had in his World's Fair Aquacade)-the four mad carpenters who nearly wreck themselves in the process of building a house on the stage. Showman Todd, gaga with excitement at his opening, would give no opinion as to its success...
Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum to keep the story rolling to a climax where she and Jack wed, produce twins resembling the embattled comics...
...Teaser for Ward's jewelry trade was a flock of watches selling from $49.95 to $145. Last year...