Word: kaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girls (MGM) will unquestionably be remembered by millions as La Girl, and Kay Kendall is her name. Up till now she has been famous only as that girl who blew the trumpet in Genevieve and in real life got married to Rex Harrison (TIME, July 1); but with the release of this picture she stands up on her own true feats to be counted as a major star. She is probably the most beautiful and deft comedienne the British have produced since the late Gertrude Lawrence...
Tall (5 ft. 9½ in.), slender, exquisite Actress Kendall seems at one moment to have come sauntering elegantly out of a Gainsborough portrait, yet at the next she is helling about the screen like a Hogarth hoyden. There is Kay in the height of Paris fashion, triumphant on the witness stand; Kay slinking about in skintights, silkily eluding an incipient pinch; Kay staggering under a giant bouquet of sunflowers, hurling herself into a violent off-to-Buffalo; Kay drunk and belching through a lusty diaphragmentation of the Habanera from Carmen ("All ze men, zay want my -ceegarettes"). And always...
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...