Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry L Stimson recalled the stricken faces of young officers who met him when he stepped from a plane in Newfoundland: they had heard a rumor that the personage arriving on the plane was Hedy Lamarr...
When the soldiers at Camp Barkeley, Tex. saw a clinch interrupted in the movie Forest Rangers, they yelled "As you were!" Hedy Lamarr's sinuous maneuvers against Richard Carlson in White Cargo brought forth wolf howls in low register. When Charles Boyer laid hands on Rita Hayworth in Tales of Manhattan, only to unhand her and start over again, one impatient soldier yelled, "For crying out loud! Stop wasting our time!" The U.S. fighting forces take active pleasure in the motion picture...
Married. Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler), 28; and John Loder, 45, British-born actor; each for the third time; same day he divorced his second wife; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Vienna-born cinemactress' first two ecstasies were Austrian Munitions-Maker Fritz Mandl and American Scenarist Gene Markey...
...last February, Assistant Librarian of Motion Pictures Howard Lamarr Walls peered into an air-conditioned vault deep in the annex to Capitol Hill's most operatic piece of architecture. He saw thousands of rolls of paper: almost the entire output of U.S. motion-picture companies from 1897 to 1912. (Before 1912, he explains, motion pictures could not be copyrighted as such, and producers got around this by copyrighting their films, printed on paper, as photographs...
...film is almost 100% good, rich Hope, uncomplicated by music, choruses or rival gagsters. For support he has Dorothy Lamour, fully dressed for the first time since The Fleet's In, and a prepossessing newcomer-a Yugoslavian refugee named Lenore Aubert, who may make people forget Hedy Lamarr. There is also Mary Byrne, who left a job as a Washington secretary to play a Washington secretary. But in They Got Me Covered the girls merely serve as feeders for Bob Hope. The Young Master takes charge of nearly every scene...