Word: boudoirs
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With that for a start, most bestselling historicals would be off on a snappy story of boudoir doings in the First Empire, with a lusty cannon counterpoint to the mattress melody. In Desiree, however, Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation to historical fact. The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his Corsican name) as a very young man was actually engaged to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, that he broke the engagement to marry Josephine, and that Desiree later married...
...same at Montazah, Farouk's summer home. Beside the King's bed were six telephones, two radios and his field marshal's uniform. In Queen Narriman's boudoir lay her latest reading matter: Lady Chatterley's Lover and Arabian Nights in French. In Her Majesty's bathroom still hung her dainty white bathrobe, left behind in the rush...
...sequence that recalls one of Shakespeare's low-comedy passages, Perro and Saverio hire out as servants for the party. There follows a lively mixup-servant shenanigans, romantic horseplay, boudoir burlesque-dampened only by a final scene which ends in tragedy...
...might come true. Europe is in the midst of a tapestry boom, and Lurçat can take much of the credit. A onetime cubist painter, he started designing tapestries shortly before World War II. His idea was that most contemporary work, modeled on the tastes of 18th century boudoir muralists, was too fussy and too expensive. Lurçat drew up designs with a simpler look, chose a few basic colors, and hired weavers at Aubusson's famed factories to turn them out. His 1946 show was a spanking success (TIME, June...
...Shelley, who are unaware that the animal is being hunted by a quorum of the local rogues' gallery (Francis L. Sullivan, Lon Chancy, Glenn Anders et a/.). Luckily required to speak none of the film's dialogue, the dog charms Shelley into locking Farley out of the boudoir. Whenever Farley tries to get rid of this dog in the manger by answering a newspaper ad inserted by one of the rival crooks, Farley finds the claimant murdered-and the police (William Demarest et a/.) leaping to embarrassing conclusions...