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...Hedy Lamarr ("What I'd call a heavy leg ... good construction") ; 2) Alexis Smith ("willowy"); 3) Ray Bolger ("A good dancing leg ... Legs don't have to be a woman's to be beautiful"); 4) Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson; 5) and 6) Citation; 7) Jane Russell, whose pret ty legs have been "overshadowed"; 8) a Chippendale chair...
Cecil B. DeMille was doing some heavy tinkering with the story of Samson and Delilah (starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr); the account in the Book of Judges still seemed a bit thin. If A Streetcar Named Desire ever gets made into a movie, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Bette Davis, Deborah Kerr, Olivia De Havilland and Greer Garson all have a bid in to play the heroine, a boozy chippy. Twentieth Century-Fox shelled out "more than $75,000" for Ernest Hemingway's twelve-year-old short story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro...
Cecil B. DeMille, Hollywood's colossal historian, had not lost his touch as he cast his upcoming masterwork, Samson and Delilah. For the girl he hired Hedy Lamarr; for the boy, Victor Mature...
This was good reliable fun when Jean Gabin starred in it (Pépé le Moko, 1937) and when Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr adorned it (Algiers, 1938); it is good fun still. The older versions were slicker moviemaking but took this likable trash more seriously than it is worth. The new version has just about the right easygoing attitude. Peter Lorre can always be counted on. Tony Martin and Yvonne de Carlo, who have never before seemed entirely human, are simple, likable, even believable. Neatest measure of John Berry's sensible directing: the leads...
...Hedy Lamarr sued for damages after she pondered the fact that Look magazine had told its readers that she once submitted to rhinoplasty.† She figured that her reputation as a natural-born, unaltered beauty had been damaged about $200,000 worth...