Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cocked eyebrow, a smirk, even a suggestive pause in speech can make the censorious heart skip a beat. In Chicago, NBC's Bill Ray complained: "You just can't trust nightclub funnymen. They've been pulling objectionable stuff so long, it's a habit they can't break." Old movies, which have become a TV mainstay, are also a TV headache. Made before the days of the Hays Office, such old films as The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik have a straightforward approach in their love scenes that shocks televiewers raised on tidied...
...summer of 1947 he made a mistake. He met a dark-haired girl named Gloria Horowitz in a Manhattan nightclub; he took her to Philadelphia, gave her some diamonds, told her to sell them for him in a jewelry store. A suspicious clerk called the cops. Dennis, waiting outside the store, saw her being arrested. He calmly walked away, but when Gloria finished talking, the police for the first time had a line...
...crossfire between two Manhattan songbirds (Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame). When Maureen suddenly loses her voice, she and Douglas discover Gloria, a seductive salesgirl with a gold-plated larynx. Under their high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch with Douglas. It is never made entirely clear what all the shooting is about...
...Winchell attend to his nightclub gossip and leave, to men of recognized ability, important matters of government administration...
...drinking Lawyer Malone (Brian Donlevy) wriggles into trouble and out again with monotonous regularity. For a while, he divides his time between a nightclub crooner (Dorothy Lamour) and a rich, fusty old client (Marjorie Rambeau). Then the crooner is convicted of murdering her boss. When she is supposedly executed (but actually spared by the governor), Donlevy gets a chance to put all his troubles under one roof: he moves beautiful Miss Lamour into the house with the old lady...