Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she has been able to do it on her own terms without cheesecake, without studio supervised romances, even without a swimming pool. It could have happened only in a new Hollywood, which has found that kookiness can be more appealing than yesterday's gilded glamour. "It's this togetherness stuff, that's what it is," says Director Elia Kazan. "In the old days, with one or two exceptions, Hollywood girls couldn't be both sexy and funny. Nowadays they insist on being so-called complete women-healthy and natural. The new crop of actresses...
...important "ins" compromise brilliantly with the new-rich "outs." "Ascot, Lord's the Royal Academy, Henley are still very smart and as important as ever," and the ins cunningly let enough of the outs into Ascot at ten guineas a head to pay for the "necessary pomp and glamour...
...house Maryvale development, seven miles northwest of Phoenix, he sells a house with three bedrooms, two baths, an all-electric kitchen, a garage and a 28-ft. swimming pool-all for $11,750. Long's houses, ranging from $8,975 to $25,950, offer extra space, glamour and luxury touches (gables, palm trees, sliding glass doors), yet sell for about $1,500 less than those of most of his competitors. Last week Long added yet another attraction: with each purchase, he will give a free acre of mountain retreat land near the Kaibab National Forest, 178 miles north...
Millie Perkins, a newcomer, lacks the necessary depth for the title role. Despite her poetic prettiness and exaggerated emaciation, she looks like an Ivory Soap ad instead of a tortured adolescent. The other actors do considerbly better; Shelley Winters, as Mrs. Van Daam, dispenses with glamour in favor of convincing frumpishness, while Ed Wynn, as Mr. Dussel, adds a fine touch of ridiculous humanity...
Safe & Superlative. In both spectaculars, which went on the air within four days of each other, Susskind was backing a sure thing. Meet Me matched the light-fingered direction of George (Green Pastures) Schaefer with a cameraful of Hollywood glamour: Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain, Tab Hunter, Jane Powell, Ed Wynn. The Browning Version was also star-packed: Sir John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Robert Stephens. With so much to offer, neither show could fail. And in the case of The Browning Version, Gielgud's superlative performance could have done the job alone. Sir John...