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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/18/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mantle of Barnum | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...Teaser for Ward's jewelry trade was a flock of watches selling from $49.95 to $145. Last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: National Bargain Week | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Great Victor Herbert is distinguished for providing Allan Jones the first film part worthy of his silken tenor. It also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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