Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Belmont specialized in what she called "frustrated love songs," called herself The Blue Velvet Voice. Her singing was popular with men. Columnist Earl Wilson came, watched, went away and wrote simply: "Busting all records." Miss Belmont became a pin-up girl, sent 50,000 photographs of her sweatered self to soldiers who wrote countless formal, polite letters in return...
...success of such pictures as "My Friend Flicka," "Lassie Come Home," "Home in Indiana," and "Thunderhead" makes it apparent that Hollywood has rediscovered a gold mine in the old theme of a child's love for an animal. "National Velvet" is the latest in this pleasing series, and it pretty largely lives up to the high standards set by its predecessors...
...easy to believe that a twelve-year-old girl can train her own horse and then ride him to victory in the famed Grand National, the most difficult racing event of them all. Once the basic plot is accepted, however, "National Velvet" appears as a colorful and heart-warming narrative of a child's devotion and will...
...comparison with "Lassie Come Home" is inevitable, since the two pictures are so similar. Though on a more thrilling and exciting scale than its predecessor, "National Velvet" occasionally suffers from poor directing, with the result that continuity tends to suffer somewhat, especially in the last reel. Otherwise it is a creditable and enjoyable production...
Before he enlisted in 1943, black-haired, velvet-eyed Johnny sang with Bob Crosby and Gene Krupa. Then he signed up as a drummer-the Army does not admit "singer" as a musical classification-with Glenn Miller's Air Forces Band. (Major Miller has been missing since a December England-to-Paris flight, but the band continues to bear his name.) Desmond's G.I. job, which he is apparently doing sensationally well, is singing. His I'll Be Seeing You and Long Ago and Far Away, in phonetic French, makes young Parisians jump up & down, squeal "Bravo...