Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theda Bara was a friendly Cincinnati girl named Theodosia Goodman, who became cinema's first femme fatale. Her catch line: "It is very hot in Africa" became a cliche almost as famous in its day as Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime...
...Sensation of the peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to the Shakespearean sonnet...
...another feeble attempt to duplicate the popularity of their stage show, "Hellzapoppin," by a cinema "extravaganza," Olsen and Johns on have once again wasted yards of valuable film. Unfortunately, the creators of "Crazy House" tried to toss a plot into the script, thereby only adding to the general confusion. Olsen and Johnson play themselves, supposedly banned from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick...
Sued for Divorce. Johnny Weissmuller, 39, thrice-married swimmer-turned-cinema-Tarzan; by Beryel Laura Scott Weissmuller, 28, San Francisco rug cleaner's daughter, mother of Weissmuller's three; after four years of marriage, her first; in Los Angeles...
...sung by Cinemactress Garland, Embraceable You and Bidin' My Time become hits all over again, and the new But Not For Me sounds like another. Her presence is open, cheerful, warming. If she were not so profitably good at her own game, she could obviously be a dramatic cinema actress with profit...