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...Tito Gobbi, in the title role, is likely to make a lasting impression on the spectator. In both his sound and his fury, he is a thrill to hear and see. All of the other parts are well done; notably Anna Maria Canali as Maddalena and Marcella Govini as Gilda. I feared for a while that Miss Govini was a follower of the still-flourishing Jeanette MacDonald School of Cinema Singers--those unique actresses who manage somehow to sing through their teeth (or porcelain caps, as the case may be) and whose little tummies are never seen to be heaving...
Gild a Gray, beaded shimmy-dancer of the nervous '203, who is suing Columbia Pictures for $1,000,000 for invading her right of privacy with the movie Gilda, said in defense of her specialty: "The shimmy was an original aboriginal dance. It was an African, a savage dance. I gave the public food for thought...
Onetime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray, 47, sought $1,000,000 from Columbia Pictures for alleged damages caused by a movie named Gilda, starring "an actress named Rita Hayworth." Charged Gilda: the picture invades not only the privacy of her life, but even that of her shimmy, which the brief defined as "a rhythmical shivering and shaking of parts of the body, synchronized and performed to a personalized syncopated musical rhythm...
...Gilda Gray, whose beaded shimmy-dancing startled a lot of people in the '20s, startled Sterling, Colo. The assistant principal of the high school invited her to a school dance at the Elks Club and promptly got holy Ned. The board of education demanded that he break the date, explained that it "didn't think the invitation . . . was quite the thing." Miss Gray, who has been holding still for some time now, in retirement on a ranch, took it gracefully. "If the people of Sterling don't want to be educated," she said...
...Gilda Gray on the 2,000 fan letters, many of them proposals of marriage, which she has received by mail in the past two weeks:* "I'm. interested in all of them. You never can tell. Hell, I'm too feminine to be alone...