Word: frump
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...tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable!" But from the London News Chronicle's Fashionewshen Jean Soward came a Soho snarl. Ticking off Marilyn as a "fat frump," Jean com mented: "The most prominent thing about her is her spare tire. Lots of us have one, but most of us dress to disguise it." Re torted uncorseted Marilyn airily: "Any woman who dresses to please women is only fooling herself...
...like to tar and feather Dior, and run him out of town. Why did he have to build me up just to let me down? I can hang my head, and drop my bra and appear a flattened frump, But Christian, tell me dear, how do I batten down the rump...
...this is an obvious mistake, for by reducing a performer of Joan's experience and hard-won skills to the cheesecake class, the picture stints her of the human qualities she has developed. Best scene: one in which Marjorie Rambeau, as Joan's mother, a merry old frump, hands around some free advice to her lovelorn daughter, and then amalgamates a ten-oz. glass of beer in one unforgettable chugalug...
...years to come. Radio listeners who have only known her as Miss Duffy would swear that she is a hilariously funny bit of fuzz-brained fluff. Moviegoers who have seen her only as Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba have difficulty imagining her as anything but an aging frump in a kimono. But lucky theatergoers have been persuaded, at one time or another, that she was an intense, good-looking young schoolteacher, a tippling grass widow, and a well-girdled, wisecracking career girl...
...tapped Frump. "Say, who here is from Arizona...