Word: dab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars a wave of honest feeling brings a backwash of sentimentality; too often the show feels that the more it dots its i's, the more the audience will dab at theirs...
...Girl In the Painting (Rank; Universal-International) begins with a mere dab of an idea. A British major (Guy Rolfe), dropping in at a London exhibition of wartime paintings, falls in love with a portrait of "Hildegard" (Mai Zetterling), a beautiful displaced blonde, and determines to find her. In the course of ransacking D.P. camps in occupied Germany, he meets not only Hildegard but a sinister, disguised SS general...
...Bebe came out foursquare against false bosoms: "I don't wear them [myself] and I never will. A girl must be her very own self. Palsies aren't honest." The U.S. beauty (bust 37, hips 36) also took a swipe at the "French-type" bathing suit: "A dab here, and a bit right down here and back there." Said she righteously: "So much unrestrained nudity has a bad moral effect on men, as well as people generally...
...smiling face was framed in a white lace collar and black ribbon choker; on her feet were pointed little one-button shoes. But there were surprising touches too: as a guard for her wedding ring she wore a blue celluloid chicken band, and one ear had a bright green dab of paint...
...first appearance there seems to be some hope for the movie; but once they have a mermaid on their hands, the people who made the picture haven't even a Peabody's idea what to do with her. Once, under water, they get her to dab at her tears; the balance of their ingenuity is exhausted in keeping one thing & another between the censors and her bosom...