Word: damsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Damsel in Distress (Fred Astaire, Gracie Allen, George Burns; TIME...
...Damsel In Distress (Fred Astaire, Gracie Allen, George Burns, TIME...
...Damsel in Distress (Fred Astaire, Gracie Allen, George Burns, TIME...
...Damsel in Distress (RKO Radio) sends Fred Astaire dancing into a foggy English countryside to rescue fair-haired, big-featured Joan Fontaine from the errant vagaries of a typical P. G. Wodehouse story. Not so lissome a heroine as light-footed Ginger Rogers (temporarily otherwise engaged), inexperienced Actress Fontaine (Olivia de Havilland's sister) goes gamely but somewhat lumberingly through the curvets and caracoles required of her. Far more facile as an Astaire partner is, of all people, rumpish Radio Dunce Gracie Allen, who with her harassed husband, George Burns, makes up the Astaire party...
Meanwhile Manhattan Beautician Miss Gloria Bristol was back from Europe bursting with professional details of how Crown Princess Juliana lost some 30 lbs. within three months after her marriage, changed from a dumpling damsel into a royal wife with chic. "What Wallis Warfield was to the American woman over 40 who thought that life and romance ended with one's first youth," cried Miss Bristol, "Princess Juliana has become to millions of girls who had almost resigned themselves to the fate of the wallflower...