Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hedy Lamarr ("What I'd call a heavy leg ... good construction") ; 2) Alexis Smith ("willowy"); 3) Ray Bolger ("A good dancing leg ... Legs don't have to be a woman's to be beautiful"); 4) Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson; 5) and 6) Citation; 7) Jane Russell, whose pret ty legs have been "overshadowed"; 8) a Chippendale chair...
...renegade Nazis for good measure. It seems that a sinister character known as Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) disappeared from Nazi circles at the time Hitler died. Hot on his trail is a handsome, fearless U.S. intelligence officer (Dick Powell) whose spy contact in Saïgon is a sultry nightclub singer (Marta Toren). The comic strips could take it from there...
...Remake of the 1941 Goldwyn production Ball of Fire, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. In the original, a group of scholars writing an encyclopedia learned about slang from Nightclub Queen Stanwyck. In A Song Is Born, the scholars are writing a history of music, fill in the chapter on jazz from "live" studies...
Satira's old Chicago nightclub boss gleefully announced plans for "big bookings in New York." A competitor offered to put Satira on a double bill with Mee's widow, another "exotic dancer." Said Widow Mee: "I don't have any hard feeling for that girl, but after...
...responsible for all this oogledy-too is a deliberately foolish-looking band leader called Red Ingle (real name: Ernest Jansen). It all began, he says, when he and his band, the Natural Seven, were playing in a Los Angeles nightclub. One night his vocalist, Karen Tedder, complained that if she had to sing Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy once again, she would go mad. To prove her point, she went into a wacky burlesque of it. "Well," said Red, "sing it that way." She did; and every night the boys put in a few more burps and barks. When they...