Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asks him for a brief biography of his life. Back goes the camera into his well-to-do Boston upbringing, his "carryon" prep-school days at St. Swithin's; Harvard and culture; World War I and the Argonne; Manhattan and the advertising business; the girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate: a cushioned middle age, the deadly divinity of trivial things...
...Miss Lamarr-thanks to careful directing-is something of a revelation herself. Hitherto, the undulant Viennese has been asked to do little but stand around and slay the male section of the audience...
...Hedy Lamarr goes every one of Winchell's inexhaustible supply of orchids. Her beauty is as breath-taking as ever, but the real surprise is her acting, (this is the first decent chance she has had), and equals anything done on the screen in recent years. In many people's minds rests the belief that Hedy Lamarr is the last person in the world who could be expected to play Marvin Myles. But whoever suggested her had a stroke of genius...
Gradually Rita was transformed from a Spanish heavy into a livelier, Americanized Hedy Lamarr. Despite her promise to do what she was told, she never wholeheartedly gave in to the painful process until she saw her great success in The Strawberry Blonde (with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland). By that time Columbia's style expert, Maggie Maskel, had taught her how to dress, made her shapely, impeccably clad figure a fashion-plate fixture of the women's style magazines. She had even brightened the earth-bound pages of the National Geographic...
...Honky Tonk (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Lana Turner, as a blue-blooded Boston babe, joins the long line of lusty ladies (Jean Harlow, Hedy Lamarr, et al.) who have joyfully succumbed to the bat-eared charms of frog-voiced Clark Gable...