This original story captures the life and times of a faded star from the early 1930's and 1940's named Mary Small who rose to fame as a child prodigy, got big during World War II and married the guy who wrote the Addams Family. Narration and sound is a bit choppy but the woman was so interesting and her life so tragic. Really shows you what it was like to come up through radio back in the early days and the first days of television, she covered all the basis. Incredible lady, incredible life.
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Worst narration ever?
jimbenben4 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This documentary is like browsing through the scrapbook of a faded, minor celebrity. Mildly interesting, but mostly desperate and pointless. There are no sparkling anecdotes or revealing insights. There are lengthy compilations of noteworthy stars with whom Mary Small appeared, but no photos of them actually with Mary. Don't expect to see much evidence of the "big voice" that is her claim to fame. The voice-over tells us that much of this has been lost. And regarding that "voice over." The narration seems to be a synthesized voice generator. Grating, emotionless, weird. This "loving tribute" is equally flat.
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