Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna Lucasta is more in demand in Hollywood than any play since Life with Father. He has been offered as high as $1,000,000 for the screen rights. Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo have all tried to persuade their bosses to buy it for them. (In the play, as first written, Anna and her family were Polish.) Among the top bidders are David Selznick and Mervyn LeRoy. Yet Yordan refuses to sell Anna Lucasta at any price unless he is allowed to co-produce the picture...
Fritz & Hedy. Fritz Mandl was the scion of Austria's pre-Anschluss Hirtenberg Arms factory. In Vienna of the 1920's he acquired notoriety as a young viveur who gambled for high stakes, and kept fancy apartments. His grande affaire was Second Wife Hedy Kiesler (Lamarr) of Ecstasy fame...
...most ways a better picture than its carbon copy. United Artists knew a good thing when they saw it, and they took large chunks--still recognizable shots, and in some cases apparently the very same sets--of the French original as a backdrop for Boyer, Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, and Gene Lockbart...
...Look, as Miss Bacall is under-statemently known, hasn't got the face, the figure, the legs, or the traditional dramatic techniques that make Ingrid Bergman Bergman, Greta Garbo Garbo, or even Hedy Lamarr Lamarr--but that long, low, luscious glance, that invitingly mysterious voice--o-o-oooh...
That Hody Lamarr is the most beautiful woman in the world is a debatable point; she certainly is not the actress Ingrid Bergman was in the same part. Charles Boyer tried to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight" to gain her wealth. Similarly accented Paul Lukas tries to pull the same stunt in "Experiment Perilous," but with no apparent motive. Almost as a trick ending, it develops that a page has been substituted in this carbon copy: Lukas is mentally unsound, which doesn't really change much...