Word: throttlebottoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographer's life is really as electric as Mr. Gable's portrayal would have you think. It can't be all burning ships and wars and jungles; doesn't Photographer Gable ever have to shoot the Sweepstake winners, or the first snowfall, or Santa Claus, or third assistant secretary Throttlebottom's speech, you wonder. However, Mr. Gable has the wonderful ability to grin convincingly even when the joke is on himself. And who wouldn't go to South America with Miss Loy? Heck, even the savages in "Too Hot To Handle" are dandy...
...cinemaddicts to whom the release of any Rogers-Astaire vehicle does not automatically constitute the major news of the week, this one may do so on the ground that in it Comedian Victor Moore, whose impersonation of Vice President Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing gained him more fame than has ever fallen to any actual, holder of that office, makes his screen debut...
Then came the Inaugural and so far as the public was concerned John Nance Garner was just one more Alexander Throttlebottom.† He made no public speeches, seldom said anything to the Press, refused to go out socially. Once a year he clapped on his silk hat like a sombrero and dined formally with the President at the White House. Once a year he returned the President's invitation at his hotel. Outside the Senate he was seen three or four afternoons a week in his reserved box at the ball park or occasionally riding through the streets...
Leading lady is witty, torch-singing Ethel Merman, whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club...
Died. Mrs. Emma Littlefield Moore, 53, retired actress, wife of Actor Victor Moore who played "Vice President Throttlebottom" in Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake; of pneumonia; in Farmingdale...