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Offstage, Piaf, now 33, is more hoyden than gamin, loves to poke fun in a husky voice at her manager and friends. And she doesn't worry about her appearance distracting; with her hair combed, and a smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York...
...legend of Tallulah, which can no longer be completely separated from fact, pictures her as a combination of great lady and rowdy hoyden moving in an aura of sex and alcohol. She has been perfectly at ease in a San Francisco waterfront dive, in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, or playing poker with stagehands. She can quote readily, and at impressive length, from the Bible, Shakespeare, and a lavatory wall. Onstage she is gowned by famous designers (she was once called the "world's only volcano dressed by Mainbocher"). Offstage, she prefers slacks and a mink coat. Hollywood didn...
Julia Misbehaves (M-G-M). During the amatory hurly-burly of World War I, Julia (Greer Garson), a hoy-de-hoyden of London's music halls, marries a landed gent (Walter Pidgeon). They break up before long and, for their child's sake, Julia nobly awards the father 100% custody. The years go by, and Julia, now a middle-aging tramp, gets an invitation to her daughter's posh wedding...
Variety called them the Lady (Kay Francis), the Sweater Girl (Carole Landis), the Hoofer (Mitzi Mayfair) and the Hoyden (Martha Raye). They got together last fall as a pickup team, only slightly acquainted with each other, for a tour of fighting fronts. Last week their "captain," Miss Francis, was home with the liveliest trouper's tale of the war. The four actresses had traveled 37,500 miles, had left the memory of their perfume in camps on three continents, won the praise of General Dwight Eisenhower and established themselves as sweethearts of the A.E.F...
Bette Davis asked for it. Almost invariably cast as an indoor girl who prefers to do her suffering mentally, she pestered the Brothers Warner to co-star her with Rough-On-Rats Cagney. Their first get-together since 1934 (Jimmy the Gent) turns the vixenish lady into a foxy hoyden. Mr. Cagney ungently plucks cactus spines from the seat of her pants after she makes an awkward leap from their stalled plane, deliberately smacks her skull with his to drive home a point, slingshots her from the rear while she signals for help with a mirror, roils her finery...