Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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M.G.M., still rich with 20 such stars as Hedy Lamarr, Greer Garson and Judy Garland, has evolved a fancy, expensive pension plan for stars and top executives, in an attempt to turn tax losses into benefits, to the extent of financing them well into eternity (TIME, July...
Inside Hollywood. Anita Colby's current title is Feminine Director of the Selznick Studios.* But the designation is flagrantly inadequate. The Face, who has a brain to match, has been better described as one part Hedy Lamarr, one part Machiavelli, one part Sammy Click...
Experiment Perilous (RKO-Radio), a not very thrilling thriller, is the story of a demented Austrian aristocrat (Paul Lukas) who meets, marries and sophisticates a once-pastoral Vermont girl (Hedy Lamarr), then proceeds to poison the mind of her child against her and all but destroy her sanity and her life. He is foiled just in time by George Brent, who takes her back to Vermont, where she and her child rapidly recuperate...
...that everyone paid too-loving attention to the film's chief virtues, which are nice to look at but are not the substance of good melodrama. The virtues: 1) some wintry Manhattan street scenes; 2) a memorable setting and costuming of the turn of the century; 3) Hedy Lamarr...
...Miss Lamarr, though inclined to stolidity as an actress, is one of the great beauties of her generation. Her admirers will find her especially well worth watching in this film, for she is far more delicate and responsive in her role than usual, and she has never before been made up, gowned, lighted and photographed to such dazzling advantage...