Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ziegfeld Girls turn out like Sheila. Two who glorify differently are sultry Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr), who discovers that the violinist husband she left behind is more exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does...
...plays his usual role of a nice, intelligent, slightly bewildered, but withal noble-charactered country lad at large in the big city, with a reasonable persuasiveness. But he has had this same part for so long that it is getting to be a little on the tiring side. Hedy Lamarr lets the cameraman accentuate the contrast between the whiteness of her skin and darkness of her eyes and hair, and tries to hide the fact that her figure is not what the simmer in her eyes would lead us to believe. But she does no acting, says nothing funny...
...Moko (French Production; Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn release) arrived in the U. S. following its tail. Produced during the heyday of the French cinema four years ago, it sired a Hollywood duplicate, Algiers, which finally wakened cinemaddicts to further charms of Hedy Lamarr, who, as Hedy Kiesler, had audiences gulping at her nude prancing and purple passion in the foreign-made Ecstasy...
...Young Communist League and New Masses are shrieking "sabotage," but for the first time since "Ecstasy" Lamarr makes l'amour and makes it right. Don't misunderstand--Hays hasn't let everything go and Hedy doesn't get negligent with her negligee again. Rather, she has finally found a part where her flat, undramatic voice isn't out of place. Cast as an old-fashioned Communist who believes the executions should be stopped while there still are a few Russians left, Hedy is crossed up by her tutor who becomes state censor and executioner himself after arranging a fatal accident...
Called back to Berlin in 1930, he accepted a five-year contract to make three pictures at a salary of $1,000 a week. This was automatically broken after the Nazi coup d'etat. His last film, titled "Thirteen Valises of Mr. O. F.," was made with Hedy Lamarr, then a comparatively unknown actress called Hedy Kiesler. Although he was only nine years old at the time, Marc says he thought Hedy was a "very beautiful woman, though a trifle too exotic...