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...George Sand, but became bored with the idea and switched from blue story to Bluebeard in mid-project. The film is mean to ladies in more ways than murder. Its closeups of fading Film Queens Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan constitute a photographic invasion of privacy. One corpulent beldam, a doomed weekend guest at Landru's Art Nouveau rookery near Paris, eats raspberries from Landru's hand and ends up with jam dribbling wretchedly down her chins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is Killing Women Bad? | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Died. Rex Bell (real name: George Beldam), 58, Nevada's ten-gallon lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee in this year's gubernatorial race, who in 1931, as a six-gun star of the silent screen, eloped with Clara (the "It Girl") Bow, once owned a 600,000-acre ranch, which he sold in 1953 when he won office; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 13, 1962 | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...very likeable show. The Judy Holliday who started her career in nightclubs shines readily in a musical. She can sing or do take-offs of singers and adorn a chorus or dance. In the role of a warmhearted answering-service operator, she can quaver like a beldam or give a rumbling impersonation of Santa Claus. But what is perhaps more important, she can look engagingly blank or beguilingly large-eyed, can be daft, sly, small-girl, strong-minded, touching. She is an adroit performer and an inimitable personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but his attributes, too. Linda is a nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1954 | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...side of the Stadium seemed to live as hundreds and hundreds of figures rose, yelled, waved hats. Beldam broke loose, the crowd reached an almost uncontrollable stage. Then individual clamor gave way to organized cheering and singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2500 UNDERGRADUATES CHARGE DOWN ON SOLDIERS FIELD IN WILD STAMPEDE | 11/21/1924 | See Source »

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