Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolgirl just doesn't have the sort of figure one ought to draw attention to. Her poor little tum bulging with rice pudding, you know, and no foundation garments to take care of her seat. More often than not she is covered with a thick layer of puppy fat, and we think it more tactful to keep most of her well covered...
...marriage of the century" between Actor-Painter John Barrymore and Socialite-Poetaster Blanche Oelrichs (who wrote and kept a salon as Michael Strange) was fondly expected to produce a great work of art, but all that ever came of it was Diana, "a fat little girl [with] straight black hair cut in stringy bangs." When Diana was four, Mother loosed her wedlock on Father, who went west to make movies and whoopee-a disappearance disastrous to Diana, or so the picture suggests. At any rate, when Diana was 20, she made her Broadway debut to impressive reviews, and went west...
...catcher flashed a signal and stuck up his mitt-a fat target. The pitcher frowned moodily and began his windup-a reluctant marksman. All evening, Cincinnati's big righthander, Brooks Lawrence, had been firing successfully past the St. Louis Cardinals. Now he seemed ready to throw and duck. And he had reason. Coiled in the batter's box was Stan ("The Man") Musial, the indestructible old pro whose potent bat has been tormenting National League pitchers ever since his rookie season with St. Louis 18 summers...
...Baker's Wife can be summed up in four words: a Marcel Pagnol production. It has the usual kindly, middle-aged fat man and the usual beautiful young thing who strays from the straight and narrow; after alarums and excursions, the fat man forgives the young thing, and all is well again. Romantic love and romantic pride sustain another defeat at the hands of the gentler virtues...
This time the fat man is a baker, and once again he is played by Raimu. He is the perfect Pagnol hero, being the arch-type of the French provincial middle-class, and a fine comedian as well. Without Raimu, The Baker's Wife would be bad beyond any telling...