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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouper | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...tapped Frump. "Say, who here is from Arizona...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Arizonians | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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