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Quite apart from Kay Kendall, Les Girls is a fine musical comedy-easily the best that Hollywood has put together since An American in Paris and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (also M-G-M productions). The picture has only a second-drawer score by Cole Porter, but Director George Cukor has shrewdly managed to make the least of it, and to make the most of a marvelous run of creative luck. Gene Kelly dances less than usual, and rather better. Mitzi Gaynor, whose face most Hollywood cameramen have in the past been careful to undertook, is revealed to have...
Quickly digesting the platefuls of sweet reviews of Les Girls, Kay Kendall wasted no time in explaining where she fits and with whom. "Women should be a tiny, tiny bit inferior to their husbands," says she. "I don't want to do anything but be with Rex." Still under contract to J. Arthur Rank, for whom she will do three more pictures, Kay is in no particular hurry to go back to Hollywood, is currently letting her hazel eyes scan a pile of play scripts, hoping to discover something that suits her, "so I can keep the same hours...
...Kay has been proclaimed by the critics as that rare beauty who is also funny. To this she scoffs patriotically: "I never thought of myself as beautiful. Millions of women in England look like me." By the time World War II broke out, Kay, at 13, had already crammed in six years of ballet lessons, spent the war years playing in musical comedies all over the British Isles. "I was a blitz baby, myself. I lived on rations when I was growing up. The majority of English girls haven't bosoms. I always wanted them...
After her trumpeted performance in Genevieve (she was generally considered funnier than the star of the show-an old car), Kay's beguiling beauty and down-to-earth sophistication pushed her to movie stardom. She was paid $100,000 for Les Girls...
With Harrison onstage night after night playing My Fair Lady, Kay spends her time touring theaters (she claims to have seen all on-and off-Broadway shows) or listening to American jazz (old Bessie Smith records) in their rented Manhasset, N.Y. home. "I've had too many years of rushing around from hotel to hotel and town to town and waking up alone in the morning." At 31, Kay Kendall says: "It's a joy for me to have a home, dogs and husband-not necessarily in that order...