Word: toppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with parents (Regis Toomey and Claire Carleton), a sweetheart three inches taller than he is (Carla Balenda) and a shady dramatic coach (Alan Mowbray). Fast-moving and full of bounce, the Mickey Rooney Show is aimed at the large audience that already likes Our Miss Brooks, I Married Joan, Topper and My Little Margie...
...profit and are of an educational nature. At the present time, undergraduate exhibitors violate both regulations. Although films are not so lucrative this year as in the past, profit is still the only reason that groups like the Liberal Union or the U.N. Council show pictures. And movies like Topper and Arsenic and Old Lace can hardly be considered educational...
...went through his now-famous tumbling approach routine that lifts him up and over a high-jump bar higher than the world record. He first cleared the rod at 6 ft. 8 in., then somersaulted over at 7 ft., half an inch over the record. As a topper, Browning cleared 7 ft. 2 in., to resounding roars from the crowd. Browning's coach, Charlie Pond, growlingly challenged anyone to prove that his star pupil did not use a one-footed take-off as required by high-jumping rules...
...Topper (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A new comedy series with Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Leo G. Carroll...
...grandmothers. They basked happily as his performances washed over them: folk songs, show tunes and his own arrangements of such classics as Debussy's Clair de Lime and Grieg's Concerto, most of which he played with artfully simplified fingerwork in the frillier runs. For a topper, he opened up his laryngitic baritone in a perennial favorite of the middleaged, September Song. When it was all over, he dangled his feet over a corner of the stage, signed his pictures, shook hands and accepted embraces from some of the more grandmotherly...