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...Favorite Spy (Paramount) casts Bob Hope as both a cowardly burlesque comedian and a debonair international spy.^ U.S. security agents persuade the comic to impersonate the spy, pack him off to a Tangier that is teeming with sinister villains (Francis L. Sullivan & Co.) and baited with a beautiful but treacherous lady spy (Hedy Lamarr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Niven, the suave, debonair Lover, is suave and debonair, but it is largely as a foil for Miss Swanson and Alan Webb that his role has signicance. He is the befuddled straightman and, as such, he hands the show to Webb on a silver platter...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/7/1951 | See Source »

deputy" Anthony and Eden, Churchill's heir debonair apparent "trusted -Foreign Secretary, deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE TORY TEAM | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Rogers-Aster numbers. In this second dream sequence, Kelly, who also did the film's choreography, dances through the streets of Paris into a Toulouse-Latter painting which slowly comes to life; an extraordinarily effective piece of photography. Kelly and Miss Caron are joined by the debonair Georges Guetary, who fits somewhere into the love quadrangle, and helps add an authentic Parisian touch to the proceedings...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...when very few good novelists even try to be debonair, Nancy Mitford brings it off. The Blessing has as much weightiness and social significance as a good meringue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Free French | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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