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