Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picking. Like most of the attractive and susceptible women who crossed the major's path. Junoesque Helen Hackman found his glamour and gallantry well-nigh irresistible. Signed on as his private secretary and bivouacked at his hotel, Helen spent many a happy hour in the major's company, dropping in at supper clubs by night, driving through the countryside by day. If Helen had a moment of doubt when the wardens at Dart moor Prison waved a cheery greeting to her companion one day as they drove by. it was promptly dispelled by the major's quickly...
...50th anniversary of the small town (area, less than 5 sq. mi.; pop., 30,000) where the great, rich, famous and beautiful stars of Hollywood live and play. Unhappily, NBC showed the customers little Hollywood living and less playing. The principal commodity the community has to offer is glamour, and in its advance ballyhoo NBC shrewdly used the come-on: "Visit the homes of the stars!" But though the camera got to the front lawn, rear garden, perch and doorstep of many a noble mansion, it never quite managed to get inside...
...jokingly presented as a fabled little hamlet whose 600 doctors and 500 lawyers make it "the sickest and crookedest town in the country." Then, brushing aside the jokes, the show tried to present Beverly Hills as a typical American town-and merely succeeded in stripping it of its glamour. Introduced were a churchgoing father of four (Jimmy Stewart), a home-loving, family-raising couple (Rory Calhoun and Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids on the Bible (Eleanor Powell), a couple who have been ideally married for 30 years (the Sam Goldwyns). There was no telling...
Amrita Chakravarty is a Hindu Marjorie Morningstar. She has a job with a touch of glamour-announcer on a New Delhi radio station. She is up to her coiled black coiffure in a venture even more advanced and emancipated than a radio career, i.e., picking her own boy friend and would-be husband. The man she thinks she loves is Hari Sahni, a fellow announcer with a neat little Clark Gable mustache. But Mama Chakravarty, like Mama Morgenstern, has no intention of letting her daughter marry a no-good. A widow, she marches Amrita straight off to stern old grandpa...
...other jealous husbands, both subsequently divorced, admitted that they had subscribed to Broady's service to spy on their wives (TV Songstress Kyle Mac-Donnell and Glamour Girl Tauni de Les-seps), but both counts were thrown out of court, because in New York State it is legal for a client to have his own phone tapped...