Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee the liberalized D.P. bill which the Administration was determined to push through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such old Un-American Activities Committee favorites as Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, baying off onto the subject of spies in the U.N. secretariat. McCarran was in a hurry to admit only one set of immigrants: 250 sheepherders to solve a labor shortage in his own state of Nevada...
...Floating Rose. One studio that is less desperate than most is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; that is partly because M-G-M has already turned up a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire. She is Elizabeth Taylor...
...Elizabeth Taylor is a great beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...
...Burning Glass. In Hollywood, which has long since proved its theory that even a flea can be taught to act a little, Elizabeth Taylor is a sure star of the future. Never has there been a time of such opportunity. For as age has dulled dozens of bright stars, custom has staled scores more. The public-though still attentive to such screen personalities as Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Errol Flynn, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Mickey Rooney, Loretta Young-no longer rushes by the millions to see a picture merely because one of them...
School & Sodas. Eye-filling Elizabeth Taylor is no such problem. In fact, she is no problem at all. Elizabeth has only a little temperament and almost no side; she pretends to no more learning than she needs, reads little besides movie magazines, hates school, loves ice-cream sodas, convertibles and swimming pools, and admires big strong...