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...Hedy Lamarr returned to Hollywood from a two-weeks vacation with husband No. 3, Cinemactor John Loder, announced that she was expecting her first child about the middle of June...
...Syrian mountain villa. Then Cairo's footlights called irresistibly. She divorced the Emir, hurried to Egypt, married a film director, divorced him within a year. By that time she had a new career: she was well on the way to be coming the Arabic world's Hedy Lamarr...
...through, it is not because of the acting but rather because of the slowness of the last half hour's plot. Alexis Smith, stripped of all glamour and dressed in the old-fashioned clothes in which a flatchested, anemic young girl and a 19th century Hedy Lamarr would look identical, turns in a sentimental performance as Mrs. Twain, whose job it is to control her impetuous husband and give him the incentive to continue writing his "funny books...
...dimmed to save electricity; locomotives eked out their coal with wood and corn-on-the-cob. Excepting such details, the war had brought nothing but boom to Buenos Aires. Legitimate businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...
Shuddering with jealousy, Astronomer Powell lectures his learned colleagues, in sweating double entendre, about the collision of two heavenly bodies. At last, after getting blitzed on vodka, and giving the lonely air warden a dog which soon displaces Miss Lamarr in the warden's affections, Professor Powell gets his love life back into focus. Mr. Craig and the dog make a handsome couple. Miss Lamarr has seldom looked more mouth-watering or seemed more tired of it all. William Powell, busy as a beaver, cheats a few glimmers of fun out of all the suggestive mockery...