Word: valles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...word and idea "vagabond"-lazy, casual, and (as he sings it) amorous in a far-off sort of way-has been curiously persistent in Vallee's technique, is almost the Vallee trade-mark-Vallée's vagabondia. His admirers may be surprised to discover from his self-revelations that his life has been anything but lazy, casual, or amorous. He ran away from school at 15, enlisted in the Navy. After that he helped in his father's store, ushered at the village theatre, bought himself a saxophone. Shrewd, he taught himself fine points of technique...
...have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs are not enough. Rudy Vallée and a technicolor ballet have been worked in for specialties. Best shot: Eddie Cantor in an old act from the Ziegfeld Follies...