Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staged by Hudson's Bay Inspector L. A. Learmonth with the aid of the wife of the Anglican missionary at Coppermine. The missionary's adopted daughter Ann posed prettily in white fox, with a rabbit cap (see cut). Eskimos Paulette and Doris draped themselves in choicest red and silver foxes from the spring catch, chose identical wolverine caps...
Usually the Queen satisfies her curiosity on the spot. After seeing The Seventh Veil, she sent for the youthful star, Ann Todd, and demanded: ''Tell me, my child, which of the three men did you choose? I couldn't tell-I didn't have my glasses...
...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...
Because the story has no place to go, it stops whenever it has an opportunity for a song, a gag, an auto chase or a rough-&-tumble fight. Near the end of all the nonsense, Ann Dvorak puts on a ballet, purporting to be about Montezuma but looking something like a barroom engraving of Custer's Last Stand. Although the ballet seems to have been elaborately and lavishly staged, the camera gives it only a routine glance...
...Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces in five basic types, i.e., Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face, Ann Sheridan a "square" face, etc. The same technique is applied in making up all faces of the same type. For these things, Perc became the highest-paid make-up artist in the world, getting $50,000 a year from Warner Bros. (At Paramount, Wally gets...