Word: vaudevillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Charles ("Charley") Grapewin, 69, onetime circus acrobat, novelist and vaudevillian, whose cackling portrayals of cinema pas and grandpas (The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath) have made his amiable old fox's face familiar to millions of cinemaddicts; and Loretta McGowan Becker, 46, handsome Chicago divorcee; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony" Cole Porter's new musical Seven Lively Arts, she plans to give a party for the cast...
...greatest undiscovered wit in the country") has written some immensely funny lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when, in a tricky scene where mood is everything, he quietly talks to a psychiatrist about himself and Harvey...
...song lyrics, here's your answer. Elwood is a gentle, vague soul who says he tried being smart for forty years and then took a crack at being pleasant, and he advises pleasant. Fay achieves a casual distinction that you would not be likely to expect from a vaudevillian...
...Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away from the bottle. Jack Oakie continues as amiably reliable as a merry-go-round. Miss Ryan is less rambunctious and more human than before. Donald O'Connor, besides being a solid vaudevillian, remains the most likable juvenile in pictures...