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...dominated in very real ways by their female stars. The classic examples are Lillian Gish and Mac Marsh, who provided the polarities from which Griffith fashioned some of his greatest films. The "screwball" Depression comedies (with Lombard, Colbert, Arthur and the rest), the great foreign sirens (Grabo, Dietrich, and Lamarr), the singing blondes from Fox (Faye, Grable, and Monroe), Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn, are genres unto themselves-this is at least half of the Hollywood product, and a half that could never have existed without women. As the key to the gold mine, all these women had immense power...

Author: By Richard Steadman, | Title: Women in Film | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

...black police activism has exacerbated an uneasy relationship between blacks and whites wearing blue. Renault Robinson's caricature, captioned with obscenities, adorns the bathroom walls of more than one Chicago station house. In Omaha last year, after Officer John Loder, son of Actress Hedy Lamarr, was accused of killing a 14-year-old black girl, white officers started a defense fund for Loder­while black police took up a collection for the girl's family. (Loder was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Anguish of Blacks in Blue | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...same time, Carson was cracking wise with Bob Hope, and Bishop was encouraging the Smothers Brothers to pour out their souls on camera. Moms was followed by a curiously subdued Woody Allen, Leslie Uggams, who is taking the Smotherses' place on CBS this fall and Hedy Lamarr. Pleasant personalities, but hardly show stoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Talk, Talk, Talk | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...body, and her reaction to his outwrestling a lion is explicitly sexual. DeMille tentatively suggests Delilah's role as emasculating bitch (at one point she turns Samson into a docile houseboy), but ultimately backs away from this idea and has her "repent." Still, between DeMille's perversity and Hedy Lamarr's devastating charms, Delilah emerges as a highly unusual, if unresolved, extrapolation of the Bible...

Author: By Stephen Kaplan, | Title: Samson and Delilah | 4/27/1968 | See Source »

Coach Henry Lamarr had his team practice outside yesterday in anticipation of field conditions at Brown. The field is cleared of snow, but is frozen. Poor traction on the hard ground will hamper the Crimson running game. The burden of the attack will fall on the passers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Grid, Booter Bouts Canceled By Big Snow | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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