Word: cowgirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steve's love for the Orient. The baby slowed her down not a bit. She made Hot Spell, a good picture but not much of a box-office splash, showed up on the Sheepman set "somewhat trepidatious" for her first western. She was togged in immaculate jeans, spotless cowgirl hat, shiny boots. "I was the only gal in the picture," she says. "Director George Marshall threw a couple of fistfuls of dirt all over my new clothes. In the first minute all of them knocked me down, rolled me in the dirt and said...
...meal for a maximum $1.70 (tip included). In Paris, the visitor can take a $13 nightclub prowl that includes a dive billed imaginatively as "the center of the former underworld," where everything is faked but the check. The Crazy Horse Saloon has a floorshow featuring cowboys, Indians and cowgirl stripteasers...
...Spurs (telecast in color) proved first-rate. The spectacular (a word detested by everyone at NBC, except the publicity department and President Pat Weaver) was big and tuneful. The book (by William Friedberg and Producer Liebman) contained the usual musical-comedy eyewash: Betty Hutton was cast as an untutored cowgirl who comes to Manhattan, falls in love with a LIFE photographer, falls out of love, falls back in love again. But it was a fine vehicle for the Hutton bounce and enabled her to do her brash singing and dancing against a background of Broadway, a fashion show...
...little of it. Mostly, she inhabited a dream world peopled by glamorous alter egos. Sometimes she imagined herself to be a young lady of great poise named Sassafrassa, who combined the best features of Pearl White, Mabel Normand and Pola Negri. Another make-believe identity was Madeline, a beauteous cowgirl who emerged from the pages of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel, The Light of Western Stars, To get authentic background for Madeline, young Lucille corresponded with the chambers of commerce of Butte and Anaconda, Mont. She read and reread their publicity handouts until she felt she knew more about...
...style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown to buy the presents his three daughters wanted for the Festival of the Kings: cowgirl outfits from...