Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Marilyn Buferd, 33, reedy (5 ft. 8 in., 123 Ibs.) Miss America of 1946, who made a small splash in the Italian cinema (Al Diavolo La Celebrita); and Hans Orton, Los Angeles restaurateur; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...
...Mansfield to a boom-or-bust tape-measure duel. Two Norwegian models, coyly heeding the open-fronted tradition begun by the late Starlet Simone Silva four years ago, consented to some slightly untrammeled poses for photographers. Bulging into the limelight in a different way, a well-turned bevy of cinema quail (Italy's sunbrowned Sophia Loren, Russia's Tatiana Samoilova, Hollywood's Mitzi Gaynor and Russia's Lino Yudina) stood shoulder to shoulder in a wary display of international solidarity...
...lifeless one from Jourdan, a wonderful happy ending which wittily demonstrates that life has more tricks than an old tart, a singable (though not memorable) musical score, and enough bibelots, furbelows, fichus, berthas, boas, sconces, socles, credenzas, teapoys and Canterburies to deliriously overdecorate this most ornate of the cinema's recurrent funerals...
...decided that Britain was not going to get caught in the American recession, but should not risk trying to expand its economy just now, either. His "standstill budget," as the papers called it, vouchsafed only the smallest mercies, trimming income taxes only for those over 65, and halving the cinema admission tax to help the movie business up from penury. The Chancellor's one concession to industry: scrubbing a 30% tax on distributed profits and a 3% tax on undistributed profits in favor of a flat 10% profits...