Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review of My Little Chicadee [TIME, Feb. 26] reads: "highly staminate Flower Belle, Mae West...
...make sense of it. Wrote Carmel Snow, in Harper's Bazaar: "It's not a lower waistline, or a higher waistline. It starts exactly at its natural, rightful indentation and extends both up and down, to give you a firm lithe line like the stalk of a flower. Sometimes the effect is achieved by a yoke over the hips, or the placing of pockets. . . . The new suits accomplish it by longer jackets...
...bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian in the fuel supply...
...rumored that the Hays office has of late been letting down the bars, and "My Little Chickadee" supplies evidence to bear out this contention. Very typical is the scene where Flower Belle puts an exotic goat in Guthbert J. Twillie's bed. "My dear," admonishes Fields, as he climbs in beside her. "you shouldn't be wearing your fur coat at a time like this...
...floor of the chamber were four gold vases, with covers in the form of human heads ornamented by blue and gold wigs; a large chalice shaped like a lotus flower, a long-necked bottle, a ewer, a spouted jug, a number of cups-all gold. Near the door was the skeleton of a small animal, apparently...