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...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...
...themselves boring and trite. In the third place, the characters insist upon talking in some sort of Biblical patois, a bastard St. James version of English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting is ridiculously wooden. Hedy Lamarr spends almost all of her waking hours draped on a half-dozen strategically placed divans or leaning against a tentpole, apparently the B.C. equivalent of a lamppost. And she rushes from divan to tentpole with such speed and determination that you begin to wonder whether old C. B. DeMille has lost...
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...
Samson and Delilah. A circus-lover's romp through the book of Judges under the guidance of Cecil B. DeMille; with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr (TIME...
Samson and Delilah. A circus-lover's romp through the Book of Judges under the guidance of Cecil B. DeMille; with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr (TIME...