Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Copper Canyon (Paramount) is a milestone of mediocrity in Hollywood's current stampede to make Technicolored westerns pegged on the Civil War (see below). Neither good, bad nor indifferent to any standard device of horse opera, the picture makes a feeble stab at novelty by casting Hedy Lamarr and Ray Milland- both with the wrong accents-as a saloon queen and a Confederate ex-colonel...
After standing up a brace of detectives who arrived at her Southampton, L.I. hotel much too early in the morning, Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr, 35, finally slipped into some white sharkskin shorts and a white terry-cloth jacket (see cut), to discuss her $250,000 worth of jewelry (none of it insured) which had somehow got lost or stolen. The gems, she drawled, had "great sentimental value...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 45, the movies' "perfect wife": Writer-Producer Gene Markey, 54, her third husband, ex-husband of Cinemactresses Joan Bennett and Hedy Lamarr; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...funnyman, has also interviewed mind-readers to get a line on prospective Academy Award winners (it was a wobbly line), examined Greer Carson's knees after an Eastern stocking designer called her knock-kneed (no knock), inspected the redecorated ladies' room at Romanoff's restaurant (Hedy Lamarr was surprised to meet him there) and played bit parts in six movies. For his brash, brisk reporting about these unlikely activities and more consequential news of Hollywood, 39-yearold Erskine Johnson has become one of Hollywood's most widely read male columnists, earns about $35,000 a year...
There are, however, two excellent scenes--the first when Samson beats the bejabbers out of the whole Philistine army and the second when he pulls down the cork temple and precipitates a riot. The patrons also get very familiar with Hedy Lamarr's midriff by the time the picture ends, thanks to some most imaginative costuming. This is as it should...