Word: vallely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great free-show firmament were in their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins don't get it first...
Ever since Oct. 24, 1929, crinkle-headed, crinkle-mouthed Crooner Rudy Vallée has spread his oleaginous voice on the air waves for Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Gelatin). Their partnership is radio's longest. Radio's first big variety show made Yale-bred Rudy Vallée (real name: Hubert Pryor Vallée) radio's first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford...
Favorite programs of Latin-Americans, it appeared, were news broadcasts, but they were also eager to hear such entertainers as Rudy Vallée, talks on U. S. cinema, Broadway gossip, other U. S. small talk. Because U. S. programs, unlike the German and Italian, were always on time, were delivered by fluent linguists (usually Latin-Americans), they became highly popular. But obstructive mountains, and interference from European stations make it hard for South Americans to hear...
...such celluloid researchers, Second Fiddle, which brings Sonja to Hollywood and wraps her in the toils of a publicity romance with Rudy Vallée-a scheme concocted by Pressagent Tyrone Power-will be full of delicious possibilities. For, as Sonja's fans well know, the liveliest Hollywood buzz-buzz of 1937 concerned her studio romance with Tyrone Power, cooked up by no pressagent but by smart little Darryl Zanuck himself. Actually, Second Fiddle is no more of a personal history than any other Henie movie. Like its predecessors, it is an artfully contrived showcase for the display...
...Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although Trudi does no skating in her screen test, she makes the grade. Jimmy believes that, as the new star, she can be used to bolster the publicity value of Roger Maxwell (Rudy Vallée), a crooner on the studio pay roll whose self-esteem is more impressive than his newsworthiness. Touched by Roger's mash notes, which are really written by Jimmy, Trudi moons over him all during production of Girl of the North. Only when she learns the real author...