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...young cat who cannot abide being called Honey Pie by his mother, Mrs. Velvet Paw. Nor can he stand her icky kisses. After plying the little creep with Casserole of Mole Innards, mother finally slaps son into silence. He buys her yellow roses and they come to a kissless domestic stalemate that is better than their sweet-and-sour past. A very sharp and funny book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Other Notables | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

Hilda makes the stunned discovery that, because of Guy's queasy feelings about his departed mother, she has been trapped into what the tabloids call a "kissless" marriage. So. naturally, Hilda turns for solace to lecherous Jean Pierre. When Guy surprises them in their love nest, he is upset and punches Aumont on the jaw. Hilda goes reeling home for her handful of pills, but-naturally-Guy gets there in time to call for a stomach pump, and tells Hilda he is dreadfully sorry about the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Henry Plus Riesman. Centralism works wonders for Hal Hingham. He moves out of his roach-ridden boardinghouse and into a smart hotel; he gets waiters to seat him where he wishes; he sweeps a startled Rose into bed with her clothes on after a three-year kissless courtship. And in one day on the road, he sells enough insurance to become one of Arcadia's top-ranking salesmen and nearly violate the Centralist rule of moderation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Help Spoof | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Veronica Lake, according to studio publicity, gets kissed nine times in her new picture, to make up for a completely kissless cinema past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Beauty, Health, Style | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Hired Wife (Universal) is the old wheeze about the rich young boss (brusque Brian Aherne) and his dreamy young secretary (Rosalind Russell). This time the boss marries the secretary early to save his cement business, frowns and whines through a kissless marriage, shuffles around town in game pursuit of a gold digger (Virginia Bruce) with a personality as hard as his best cement. Some witty, well-timed dialogue plus the articulate gestures and grimaces of paunchy Funnyman Robert Benchley, who gives his first cinema demonstration of his finesse with the mandolin, keep the film from becoming an also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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