Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Night with You (Universal) would be a satisfactory scoop of vanilla if it didn't try to be hot-fudge-marshmallow-pecan. The film was originally titled Once Upon a Dream, but Universal's sales department made a firm pronouncement: "Any title with fantasy or the supernatural suggested is poison at the box office." But Once Upon a Dream is still the right name for the picture...
Thus far, besides treating several thousand music lovers to samples of his 1,500-odd works, Villa-Lobos has acquired an ecstatic admiration for tall buildings and vanilla ice cream. In the encounter of two such dynamic protagonists as Villa-Lobos and the U.S., onlookers expected even more to happen before he returns to Rio de Janeiro, where he is the city's amateur three-cushion billiards champion as well as musical overlord of Brazil's Ministry of Education...
...married. In the picture, Martha Raye, the feminists' Joe E. Brown, practically ingests the comic sergeant (Phil Silvers) who chauffeurs their jeep. Mitzi Mayfair snuggles up to a uniformed ex-vaudeville partner (Dick Haymes, who is Fox's threat to Frank Sinatra, and sings like melting vanilla ice cream). Kay Francis plays handles with an English Army doctor who utters the stunning gallantry : "If I'd held this hand ten years ago I might have a full house now." Miss Francis just laughs. In Britain and Africa, the cinemactresses clearly enjoyed themselves, worked hard, and brought some...
...Winnipeg police said that 95% of all flavoring extracts (vanilla, etc.) sold in some stores was bought to flavor stomachs, not cakes and candies...
...catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins, Mickey quipped: "You look like a vanilla ice-cream cone." Miss Garland measured Mickey's scarlet-chapped 5 ft. 2 in., riposted: "You look like a rationed bottle of catsup...