Word: delair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenmore has a double-bill this week a good murder mystery and a new actress named Suzy Delair. Of course, Suzy is also highly involved in the murder mystery, but Suzy's screen personality will demand some attention...
This Suzy Delair, mentioned earlier, plays Jenny, and does it well. Her singing of "Avec Son Tra-la-la" (Boom!) left nothing to be desired but more. However there are two things about Mile. Delair that some may find disturbing: (1) her face looks as if it were in the early stages of mumps, and (2) she apparently has no hip-bones. Now everyone knows that the heroines of movies should weigh at most 118 pounds, and should try to have as much bone structure evident as health will permit and Harper's Bazaar will sanction. Suzy Delair breaks those...
Jenny Lamour (French). Winner of the Grand Award at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. A whodunit about vaudeville people. Excellent performances by Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier and the notably attractive Suzy Delair, who suggests a Mae West who really means it. First-rate directing by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The best movie treatment of show business since E. A. Dupont's monumental Variety...
Thanks for the capital article on Farmer Delair [TIME, March 2]; it can be multiplied many times throughout our land. I keep thinking, however, of the obvious contrast to this fine example-the men (& women too maybe) who wouldn't put in a good day's work without "double time on Sundays and time & a half for Saturdays...
...Farmer Delair had put in a good day's work. It had been a good day's work for the whole U.S., for all the lands that need American food...