Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roach has had a brainstorm. In a fit of temporary insanity he conceived a movie combining Disney fantasy, Runyon plot, West-Lamarr sex, and Laurel and Hardy slapstick. The chaotic and riotous result is "The Housekeeper's Daughter." Rarely on the screen has there been a set of characters doing more incongruous things. Rarely has the screen seen a funnier comedy...
...justify its lack of originality. The lady is in love, is jilted, marries on the rebound, and unfortunately finds herself still in love with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others (not so frequent) which reminds one of Clare Booth at her nastiest best. Spencer Tracy is definitely out of place. He is aphoristic, as usual, but he is convincingly so in a steaming jungle...
With the loss of Vernon Struck '38 who is going to Providence with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, the Varsity coaching staff will consist of Wes Fesler, end coach, Lyle Clark, line coach, and Floyd Stahl, scout, in addition to Harlow and Stahley while Henry Lamarr remains in charge of the Junior Varsity...
...Take This Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This Hollywood Hedy-ache began as a laudable endeavor to bring glamorous Miss Lamarr and her palpitant public face to face again. The first shooting was generally conceded to be so awful that after investing $900,000, the studio temporarily pushed it far back on the shelf while Spencer Tracy made Stanley and Livingstone, producers made changes in the cast, the direction, the Charles MacArthur script. Face-saving retakes cost some $500,000. Result: an entertainment hangover throbbing with the self-evident truism that Hedy Lamarr is quite an eyeful...
...Hollywood's gaudy Trocadero restaurant, Redbook magazine gave a gaudy party to celebrate its selection of Bette Davis as 1939'$ outstanding film actress. More in evidence than Bette Davis were: 1) Actress Joan Bennett, with 2) her third husband, Producer Walter Wanger; 3) Actress Hedy Lamarr, with 4) her second husband-and Actress Bennett's second-Writer Gene Markey. A brash photographer, well aware that since Joan Bennett dyed her hair the color of Hedy Lamarr's (brown) they look like a sister act, asked the Wangers and the Markeys to pose together. The Wangers grabbed...