Word: bel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barabara Bel Geddes, as the wife, is clearly the star of the show. She handles the wisecracking and mugging demanded of her with consummate skill. Miss Bel Geddes is very nearly matched by Barry Nelson, as her husband, who is appropriately bewildered by all the activity around him. He probably can't help the fact that he looks 20 years old, instead...
Michael Rennie does well as the matinee idol who makes a play for Miss Bel Geddes, and he looks the part. John Cromwell, as Mr. Nelson's crusty old tax lawyer, is another bright spot. In fifth and last place is Betsy von Furstenberg, the fiancee. Miss von Furstenberg is fun to look at, but occasionally agony to listen...
...couldn't help wondering whether Mrs. Kerr created the wife in her own image. Miss Bel Geddes portrays a wisecracking terror, who is forever turning innocent remarks into fodder for her machine-gun bursts. She sounds about the way you'd expect Jean Kerr to be. Old Walter must have a hell of a time...
Brazil reacted as if it had been handed a hot potato. U.S. planes, which had been refueling at Belém and Recife while keeping an eye on the Santa Maria, were suddenly ordered grounded. Trying to keep on the right side of everyone, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry announced that if the Santa Maria entered Brazilian waters she would be returned to her Portuguese owners, but that Galvão and his 70 men could have political asylum...
Conqueror's End. A careful man who never smoked or drank, Martini seldom visited his empire, and, when he did, was surrounded by bodyguards. While his wife whisked about Paris in a snow-white Chevrolet Bel Air and spent her evenings backstage at the Folies Pigalle, Martini stayed snugly at home in the suburban chateau, where every visitor was screened by three ham-handed Arab thugs. The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle." This threat evaporated last month when Defendin was found lying...