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Word: devilment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulipe, show some charmingly unexpected dimples in the bath scene from Beauties of the Night (seen in full by the Queen of Britain, but sharply censored for U.S. moviegoers), and play her cheesecake for comedy-with a side dish of macaronic English-in John Huston's Beat the Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Devil-may-care Porfirio Rubirosa and his current great & good friend, Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, showed up in Hollywood to start a horse opera called The Western Affair, an epic calculated to display polo-playing Rubirosa's short-in-the-saddle talents. But when Rubi, relishing his prospective role as a two-gun saloonkeeper, sashayed up to the immigration office to apply for a work permit the federals turned down his request. Their ostensible reason: Rubi, though surely one of the greatest amateur thespians of his age, is not a professional actor. Wailed Zsa Zsa: "It just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Afterwards, all the tales agree, Wrestling the Devil seemed to be Quite a relief to Anthony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: PHYLLIS McGINLEY'S SAINTS WITHOUT TEARS | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...wilderness bare and level, Anthony wrestled with the Devil. Once he'd beaten the Devil down, Anthony'd turn his eyes toward town And leave his hermitage now and then To come to grips with the souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: PHYLLIS McGINLEY'S SAINTS WITHOUT TEARS | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...international film festival in Berlin, all proceedings stopped as three of the world's most sightly actresses-Italy's Sofia Loren, Hollywood's Yvonne (The Captain's Paradise) de Carlo, and Rome's Gina (Beat the Devil) Lollobrigida-got together for the photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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