Dennis Owsley, the author, photographer and jazz historian who hosted the St. Louis Public Radio show “Jazz Unlimited” until 2019, has died in Arizona. He was 78.
BY LEE PFEIFFER
Despite changing social tastes and values, America s love affair with Bob Hope ensured he continued his successful movie career throughout the 1960s, albeit with diminishing results. Perhaps the nadir of Hope s work on the big screen during this period is the 1965 production I ll Take Sweden , yet another sex-themed comedy of the era that can only be described as flaccid. Hope plays Bob Holcomb, a successful business executive and widower who is trying to provide a moral upbringing for his teenage daughter Jojo (Tuesday Weld.) However, Bob s viewpoints on the sexual revolution border on Puritanical. The most important mission in his life is preserving his daughter s virginity until she marries. When the film opens, Jojo and her ne re do well boyfriend Kenny Klinger (Frankie Avalon) announce to him that the intend to wed very soon, a prospect that sends Bob into a state of panic. Jojo isn t employed and Kenny s occupation is as an occasional rock n roll singer. Th