Word: baba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forget Sabu the Elephant Boy, and concentrate on Maria Montez, you won't mind this distorted version of the Arabian Nights. The scenery is in Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least...
...entirely new. "Fee fi fo fum, I smell Russian blood! For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself in your eyes and slaps you across the face." These words are not from a speech by Stalin. They are the lines the old witch (Baba Yaga) always speaks in the oldest of Russian folk tales...
...daughter, Leonora Margaret Brooke (known to the press as Princess Gold), made a noble alliance when she married the late Earl of Inchcape, a P. & O. shipping tycoon. But Elizabeth Brooke (Princess Pearl) married a jazz-band leader, Harry Roy. Nancy Valerie Brooke (Princess Baba) married and divorced a professional wrestler, Bob Gregory. To make matters worse, Sir Charles's wife, the Ranee, a daughter of the late Viscount Esher, published her autobiography, Relations and Complications, indiscreetly revealing the details of Sir Charles's courtship, their marital relations. The Ranee, now in Manhattan, cut off from her British...
Divorced. Blonde Valerie Brooke Gregory ("Princess Baba"), 24, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak; by Wrestler Bob Gregory, 28, onetime claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can title; after three married years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: "She is always somewhere else...
...made a new picture-Forty Little Mothers (M.G.M.). So had Comedian Benny-Buck Benny Rides Again (Paramount). This coincidence was the more curious because both comedians' last pictures were no great shakes. Cantor's Ali Baba Goes to Town left 20th Century-Fox like a visit of the forty thieves. Benny's Man About Town suggested that some Benny fans would rather listen free to than pay to look at their hero...