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...Cole Porter: it has a "school of Cole Porter" air. The lyrics would not be a credit to anyone, and for Porter they fall woefully flat. Abe Burrows' book, largely concerned with the love of a priggish young judge (Peter Cookson) and a prancing, Montmartre Jezebel, rises only once-in a funny duel scene-from banality to Burrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Star (Bert Friedlob; 20th Century-Fox), with Bette Davis- suffering heavy emotional weather as a fading movie actress (Bette won Oscars in 1935 for Dangerous and in 1938 for Jezebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Post Time | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Converted Prostitutes. Their pet project, however, was something called "Urania Cottage," or "Miss Coutts' Home for Fallen Women at Shepherd's Bush." A good half of the letters in the volume are concerned with the difficulties of reconstructing Jezebel in the image of Mrs. Grundy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelist & Social Worker | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...affair with a married man-following Ingrid Bergman's escapade with Roberto Rossellini and Rita Hayworth's fling with Aly Khan-has inevitably reawakened in some quarters the ancient question about Hollywood morals. It has brought her some censure (one letter writer habitually addresses her as "Bitch-Jezebel-Gardner"). Yet it actually seems to be helping, rather than hurting, her earning power. Reports Columnist Sidney Skolsky solemnly: "Ava worried. She lost weight. But now she has found that scandal can't hurt her." Her current picture, Show Boat, is breaking box-office records across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Screen Directors Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Bette Davis in Jezebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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