Word: chic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final two acts deal with Jane's transformation from shabby to chic, her success in society, and her marital difficulties. A subtle comedienne, Miss Best's timing and intonations are perfect for this part, which demands a curious combination of wisdom and naivite. But in the last two acts, the plot disintigrates, and neither Miss Best's performance nor the feathery pomposity of Loder and St. John can hold Jane together...
...Still Chic. Returning to New York, Muriel cast the cloak of her social and artistic background over a host of Communist intellectuals and pro-Soviet organizations. After World War II, all the intensity which she had once devoted to arguing the merits of Beethoven or Gertrude Stein was given over to stock denunciations of "fascistic tendencies" in the U.S. and stock praise of life in the U.S.S.R. By 1949, still chic, still full of zest, she was president of the Communist-fronting Congress of American Women. The House Un-American Activities Committee in its report of that year gave Muriel...
...exciting moments of my life," a line which might have been lifted straight from Call Me Madam, a musical comedy about her. Sample cliches from her address : "It is a great thing to be an American woman ... In America today women are a tremendous force." Mrs. Mesta wore a chic black dress and liberal strands of pearls and looked, withal, as though she had just come in from cooking over a hot stove...
...France, a U.S. sailor, lunching with a shipmate at Juan-les-Pins' chic Municipal Casino, bet his buddy a dollar that the slim woman under the huge hat at a nearby table was Greta Garbo. The headwaiter relayed Greta's denial: "Sorry, the name is Brooks...
Unfortunately, the screenplay is not quite so chic. Red Skelton inherits a half interest in a Paris dress salon and stages a musical fashion show on the premises. Howard Keel sings and has romantic designs on Designer Kathryn Grayson; Ann Miller and Marge and Gower Champion do some fast stepping, and blonde Zsa Zsa Gabor just flounces around. When it is dressed up with songs and smart styles, Lovely to Look At has a champagne sparkle. At other times, it is as flat as dead soda...