Word: whiteman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Whiteman Varieties (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC). New hour-long variety show...
...medieval western," offers deadpan Alan Ladd as a knight on the town. ¶ Saskatchewan (Alan Ladd) and The Far Country (James Stewart) take place in Canada and Alaska, are called "northern westerns" by Universal-International. ¶ War Clouds (United Artists) is notable for a sequence in which the whiteman hero (Rory Calhoun), armed with bow & arrow, fights it out with a gun-toting Indian...
George Jessel Salutes (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC). A new variety show with Paul Whiteman's orchestra...
...University, but when he found out as a pre-law student that he could make as much as any beginning lawyer in town by singing and tooting a kazoo, he quit school and headed for Los Angeles to break into full-time show business. There, two years later, "Pops" Whiteman auditioned his act, and signed Bing and his partner Al Rinker into the big time...
...Whiteman added Harry Barris to Bing and Al, called them The Rhythm Boys and featured them on tour. Says Bing: "We laid them out in sections-we fractured them." Bing adds that he also fractured himself with too much booze, too little work, and too many unlikely companions. He woke up after one binge in a mobster hideout with police machine guns playing chopsticks on the door...