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Unfortunately, no one stops the show. With one or two Gwen Verdons, Seventh Heaven might bounce to victory the way the equally uninspired Can-Can did. Seventh Heaven does have some reasonably lively dancing and some agreeable sentimental tunes. But it lacks production excitement: Hollywood's Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban make love seem pleasantly unmemorable, and no one makes sin very thrilling. Sin, in fact, is a good deal more lavendered than scarlet -the hotcha is mostly oo-la-la, the Paris mostly an old-fashioned Gay Paree. The last show of the season, Seventh Heaven might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

When Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban take over from their dancing colleagues, the play shows little noticeable improvement. Certainly, few actors could appear rational in a dialogue such as the serious conversation about atheism which they must carry on in a sewer, but it would hardly be excessive to ask the stars of a musical to be able to sing. As the chanteuse Diane, however, Miss Miss DeHaven reveals only a rather light voice which requires amplification, while Montalban, cast in the role of Chico the sewer-cleaner, is content to speak rather than sing his lyrics. Neither gets much...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: "Seventh Heaven" | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

Hollywood's John Payne and Gloria DeHaven called off their second trial separation in 3 ½ years, "because we love each other and . . . .our two children." Songstress Ginny Simms-because "we still love each other"-considered dropping her two-week-old divorce suit (their first in nearly three years) against her architect-husband Hyatt Dehn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Actor John Payne announced that he and Actress Gloria DeHaven would try the second trial separation of their 3½-year-old marriage. Lita Grey, second of Charles Chaplin's four wives, said that her third marriage (to Arthur Day Jr.) had proved a bust after nearly ten years. Actress Susan Peters and Producer Richard Quine found that they were through after 4½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Show-Offs. In Indianapolis, Herman Barry and Leo DeHaven were arrested carrying off a red-hot stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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