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...star (whom she actually resembles), rehearsed while a phonograph played mood music of the '203. For sad scenes, an accordionist played Poor Butterfly. But in the picture, Kim proves more kitten than tigress; her tempests rattle not even a teacup. Happily for her admirers, this indifferently fictionalized cinememoir reveals more of Kim than ever before; shedding for a midnight dip with her lover (Jeff Chandler), or wiggling proficiently through a hootchy-kootchy dance in the carnival he runs, she shows that her extraordinary complexion is just as good all over. No matter how art may suffer, all should work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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