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Word: lamarre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little, Elizabeth Taylor is a sure star of the future. Never has there been a time of such opportunity. For as age has dulled dozens of bright stars, custom has staled scores more. The public-though still attentive to such screen personalities as Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Errol Flynn, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Mickey Rooney, Loretta Young-no longer rushes by the millions to see a picture merely because one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...still learning it is hardly fair of Eagle-Lion Films to bring him into society. Perhaps the most objectionable feature of the film is the repeated use of the infamous "double-take." Everybody in "Let's Live A Little" employs the double-take, with the exception of Hedy Lamarr, who remains ossified throughout...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

...Hedy Lamarr ("What I'd call a heavy leg ... good construction") ; 2) Alexis Smith ("willowy"); 3) Ray Bolger ("A good dancing leg ... Legs don't have to be a woman's to be beautiful"); 4) Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson; 5) and 6) Citation; 7) Jane Russell, whose pret ty legs have been "overshadowed"; 8) a Chippendale chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled Times | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Cecil B. DeMille was doing some heavy tinkering with the story of Samson and Delilah (starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr); the account in the Book of Judges still seemed a bit thin. If A Streetcar Named Desire ever gets made into a movie, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Bette Davis, Deborah Kerr, Olivia De Havilland and Greer Garson all have a bid in to play the heroine, a boozy chippy. Twentieth Century-Fox shelled out "more than $75,000" for Ernest Hemingway's twelve-year-old short story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hollywood Way | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Cecil B. DeMille, Hollywood's colossal historian, had not lost his touch as he cast his upcoming masterwork, Samson and Delilah. For the girl he hired Hedy Lamarr; for the boy, Victor Mature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Quiet, Please | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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