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...Angel Wore Red (Titanus-Specta-tor; MGM) is a turbid Kleenex-sopper about an unfrocked priest (Dirk Bogarde) and a cabaret girl (Ava Gardner) who is frocked, but just barely. Bogarde and Gardner fall into intimate clutch during one of the first air raids of the Spanish Civil War. That very morning Bogarde had left the church because its hierarchy sympathized with Francisco Franco's rebels. But after the raid, in the kind of irony that cuts like a rubber dagger, he is hunted down by a mob of enraged Loyalists who have convinced themselves that the city...
...nicest girl Sinatra's ever gone with-Nicer than Ava, Lauren, Kim, Kyle, Candy, Kitty, Sally, Shirley, Terri, Patti, Marta, Milly, Lana, Lulu, and Lady Beatty...
Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. Besides writing with wit and learning about the centaurs' food (aphrodisiac mushrooms), the author renders highly personal judgments on Judas and Benedict Arnold (no traitors), afterworlds (dull) and Ava Gardner (delightful...
...Angeles' annual Las Madrinas debutante ball, 33 debs were thrown into the maw of Old Angeleno society. Few father-daughter couples were as dashingly smooth, however, as the old hoofer him self, Fred Astaire (who hates to wear tails), and winsome Ava...
...length to make the most dangerous conceivable situation in human history seem rather silly and science-fictional. The players look half dead long before the fallout gets them. But what could any actors make of a script that imagines the world's end as a scene in which Ava Gardner stands and wistfully waves goodbye as Gregory Peck sails sadly into the contaminated dawn...