Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biblical sense of "strange," Hedy Lamarr is a strange woman indeed. In Bangor, Me., 1820, a bad girl had to be both beautiful and clever to get by with "strangeness." While the plot of The Strange Woman goes busily along assuming that the heroine is outrageously clever, Miss Lamarr's beautiful face never manages to express anything at all except its own uncommon beauty...
...feasted his eyes and practiced his art increasingly in Hollywood. Among his sitters: Greta Garbo ("I was immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...
...Hedy Lamarr suffered the unkindest cluck of all, from a corner of the foundation-garment industry. A sharp-eyed stylist rose to report: her waist is too thick. Also, said this foundation-garment expert: Ingrid Bergman tends toward hippiness, and Katharine Hepburn hasn't enough of what Carole Landis has too much...
Dorothy Lamour, like Hedy Lamarr a week earlier (TIME, April 29), got debaubelized. While she was visiting Baltimore, an auto burglar got away with some $26,000 worth of her jewelry, a $1,500 fur coat, 36 pairs of stockings. Unmolested: 15 other pieces of luggage...
...Hedy Lamarr lost $19,000 worth of warmth and beauty to burglars who called while she was out. Among the missing: a chinchilla coat ($5,000), her engagement ring ($12,000). Hedy bought...