Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum to keep the story rolling to a climax where she and Jack wed, produce twins resembling the embattled comics...
...stations throughout the country, these sentiments are sung by a character called Gaston, whose recorded outbursts are sponsored by Chateau Martin wine. Few jingles have made such an impact on the U. S. Variations on Gaston's theme are popular in nightclubs, his antics have formed the background of several skits, and his slogan "I am NUTS about the good old Oo Ess Ay" is incessantly echoed among the nation's small...
...soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...birth pangs of Arizona are merely background for the scufflings of these representatives of good & evil as they wind their way through Indian fights, cattle rustling, military occupation by both Confederate and Union troops. Like any horse opera, big or small, the picture provides more gunplay than the Aberdeen, Md. Proving Ground...
...believe even the most monistic of philosophers would notice a tiger, and not stop to argue that it could not be validly considered except in relation to its background...