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With overseas imports suspended for the duration, U.S. War-weary consumers were in the mood for a bit of winsome charm. Nowhere is this focus on the feminine more readily discernible than in the ceramics that flooded America during World War II. Need to perk up the plot? Then forget the dialog. It’s a scenario repeated over the years in dozens of "backstage" movie musicals.

Irving Berlin’s latest hit stops the show (as do all those elaborately-clad—or semi-clad—girls). She'll start upon a marathon, and run around your brain!"Ī bevy of beauties descends a seemingly endless staircase in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919. Just like the strain of a haunting refrain,

August 7, 2012"A pretty girl is like a melody, that haunts you night and day!