Word: gina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie and the NBC staff chimpanzee, J. Fred Muggs...
...Americana until they filled its 475 rooms with some 700 guests, including so many celebrities that oglers hardly had eyes for the lobby's live orchids, alligators and waterfalls. By the time Robert Sarnoff got to the main business, his convention speech, the clock ticked toward midnight, Gina was distractingly cuddling with her husband at one of the main tables, and a spectator was heard to grumble, "Here comes the late late speech...
Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Gina Lollobrigida, Groucho Marx...
...Rome (Ponti-DeLaurentiis; D.C.A.). In the novel by Italy's Alberto Moravia, the most important thing about La Romana is that she is a dark beauty who loves men and money. In the movie version, the most important thing about her is that she is played by Gina Lollobrigida. Gina's mother, an impoverished ex-model, leads her daughter into her old profession, hoping that it will lead Gina into an older and more profitable one. Mother proudly proclaims that "there was not a figure like [Gina's] in all Rome." As the movie opens, Gina strips...
Soon men move into Gina's life. The first is a cad; worse, so far as mother is concerned, he is a chauffeur. When Gina learns that he will not marry her because he is already married, what is there for her to do? She is disillusioned, bursting with "physical exuberance," and full of motherly advice that she has a body to sell. She sells it. Comes the dawn, and Gina wants to die. Instead, she keeps going-from one man to another. The principal ones (the time is the mid-'30s) are a fascist police official...