Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistress and their two illegitimate children behind and took to the hills. Two weeks later he decided to give himself up for trial. "I am innocent!" he shouted in court; he had been miles away at the time of the murder, loading a wagon with bootleg booze. But a trio of confessed holdup men swore that he had been their accomplice. Carlo's nickname was against him; so was the law, which in Italy holds that the accused is guilty until he proves his innocence. Carlo went to prison for life...
...filled with danceable music and pretty girls. Using scarcely a line of dialogue, the show features Crooner Mel Torme and Teresa Brewer, a topnotch singer with a voice somewhere between a blowtorch and a cello. Also on hand: the Honeydreamers quintet, and a trio of dancers cavorting at different U.S. vacation spots each week. The Thursday commercials, plugging General Electric, are unobjectionable...
...NBCTV) tries gamely to flesh out its hillbilly tunes with production numbers in the Hit Parade manner. Billed as "the Tennessee Plowboy," unsponsored Eddy Arnold strums a guitar, beats out songs like Moonlight & Roses in country rhythm, and gets informal support from an earnest, shiny-faced trio called the Dickens Sisters...
...discovers that her husband (Ray Milland) has been playfully running around Manhattan with a specialist in tribal-ritual puberty dances (Valerie Bettis) when he was supposed to have been in Chicago on business. In retaliation, she invents a romance of her own. This leads to divorce proceedings. The trio becomes a foursome when a rich square (Aldo Ray) from the Klondike stakes out a romantic claim on Jane during the interlocutory period of the divorce. All in all, Let's Do It Again strains too hard for its laughs...
...heroine, Maggie McNamara has a pert, wide-eyed, fresh-scrubbed charm. David Niven is appropriately debonair as the playboy. In the role of the architect, William Holden does one of his easy, authoritative acting jobs, that is all the more effective for not seeming like acting at all. The trio of leading characters appear as likable, essentially well-behaved people, in a picture that is always sophisticated, literate and in good taste...