Word: ava
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Touch of Venus (Universal-International) is a free movie translation of the sprightly Broadway musical written by Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman* (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). When a pretty statue (Ava Gardner) is imported into a department store as a publicity stunt, a kiss from a shy window decorator (Robert Walker) melts the cold marble into ardent flesh. The living Venus has arms and some interesting ideas about using them. Her timid swain is mainly interested in 1) persuading her to go back to work as an objet d'art, and 2) placating his landlady, his girl...
...favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told me that he had kicked Ava Gardner [Mrs. Shaw No. 5] several times and that she had 'responded nobly.' " Kathleen's lot: "He knocked me down" in the Norwalk, Conn. railroad station, and once "threatened to kill me." Still another time "he referred to me as a materialistic and vindictive bitch...
...also went into the financial side of his marriage: "She is trying to blackmail me. I know the defendant to be a money-mad extortioner." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband of Ava...
Ernest Hemingway, on the other hand, had one of the "most provocative faces in the world," declared the Artists League of America. Other faces that moved the league to exclamations of wonder: Hirohito's ("provokes pity") and Cinemactress Ava Gardner's ("provokes libido"). Hemingway's face, said the artists, "provokes annoyance...
...with blows. The police wrestled him loose and bore him off to jail, where he said: "I am not at all sorry for what I have done. . . " His two male secretaries carried the bleeding Gandhi into Birla House. He never spoke again. As his soul seeped out, his grandniece Ava chanted Gandhi's favorite verses from the Hindu holy book Bhagavad-Gita...