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...Floradora Girl Evelyn Nesbit, 61, the 1906 reason why the late Harry K. Thaw (TIME, March 3) shot Stanford White, walked into a windfall. She was airing her Belgian griffon, Hedy LaMarr, on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, when a casting expert rushed up and offered the beast a trot-on role in the Broadway musical, Street Scene. Salary: $20 a week...
...Hedy Lamarr, who wants to break a picture contract with Producer Arnold Pressburger because she expects a baby in March, lost a court fight to have her case heard before the baby arrives. "Miss Lamarr's condition," gravely deposed the producer, "came about not through any fault of my own, but due entirely to an act on the part of the plaintiff which was solely within the plaintiff's own control...
...biblical sense of "strange," Hedy Lamarr is a strange woman indeed. In Bangor, Me., 1820, a bad girl had to be both beautiful and clever to get by with "strangeness." While the plot of The Strange Woman goes busily along assuming that the heroine is outrageously clever, Miss Lamarr's beautiful face never manages to express anything at all except its own uncommon beauty...
...lures her husband's son (Louis Hayward) into patricide. Finally she is ready to steal a better looking man (George Sanders), who belongs to her best girl friend (Hillary Brooke). From the very beginning of these turgid, dragged-out, unconvincing carryings-on, it is plain that Miss Lamarr and her honeycomb lips will eventually wind up in Proverbial death and an Old Testament hell...
...feasted his eyes and practiced his art increasingly in Hollywood. Among his sitters: Greta Garbo ("I was immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...