Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though her singing voice is fine, shy Carol Cole, 20, daughter of the late Nat King Cole, decided she would rather act, began her movie career as a waitress named Pussycat who douses Dean Martin with a drink in something called The Silencers. With that little ceremony finished, Carol smiled as gracefully as the King used to and went off to be crowned Princess October of Hollywood-a distinction cooked up by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to honor a girl every month for "character and personality...
...most famous sculptures: the David, Moses, the Pieta, Bacchus, the Medici tomb figures. It makes a splendid beginning. And even for the shrewdest caterers to popular taste, an act like Michelangelo's is hard to follow. What does follow in this solemn, princely spectacle -drawn by Director Carol Reed and Scenarist Philip Dunne from Irving Stone's low-to-middlebrow biography-shows every evidence of great effort, but the achievements are spotty...
...form or another (Ginger Rogers on Broadway, Betty Grable in Las Vegas, Carol Channing in Los Angeles), the Dollies are multiplying infectiously. The overseas form is Mary Martin, and Producer David Merrick thought that his globe-trotting troupe of Hello, Dolly! was in just the right shape to send to Russia as a gesture of cultural amity. "Nyet!" gestured back the Kremlin, obscurely protesting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Then the man who's most involved in Viet Nam took over. Lyndon Johnson phoned Merrick at 5 a.m. one foggy dawn in Tokyo, where that same evening Mary brought...
Like the pavement on the road to hell, this film has been made with good intentions. Joseph E. Levine wanted to get completely out of his Hercules rut. Carol Baker tried to sew up her reputation as America's hottest sex symbol. And Hollywood felt ready to display its new maturity and discuss Adult Problems...
Surprisingly, the acting in this otherwise total mess is decent. Carol Baker chose to play Harlow as a bewildered little girl, though with a woman's anger, and she is the only truly pleasing part of the movie. Raf Vallone and Anglea Lansbury make convincing parents, and Michael Connors is a charming man-who-Harlow-didn't-marry. Only Red Buttons, as Arthur Landua, really stinks...