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...picture's best gag is wordless. MacMurray has been Bali-hooeying Madeleine Carroll about his home life with five native maidens. One of them, he brags, sweeps for him, one sews, one cooks, one dances. . . . Carroll: "But that's only four!" MacMurray: arch silence, a coy smile...
...easy. All we have to do is act natural," one coy little monkey chattered...
Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Rollicking farce about a coy Southern belle who outsmarts Broadway's slickest wiseacres (TIME...
Alan G. Slocombe '42, author of the cryptic "biting over the telephone" phrase, pooh-poohed the idea that Miss Arnold had been frightened. "I growled at her and I guess she was just being coy," he claimed...
...actually say he would do it. "There's nothing coy about me. I usually answer when my mind's made up,'' he said. But for three weeks a procession of delegations and petitions from Chicago had been pouring in on him, trying to persuade him, making pretty copy about him for the newspapers. "I am open-minded about it," he temporized. "After all, my first venture in political life as a youth was fighting the Chicago traction interests."* Some professors at the University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers...