Word: lamarre
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...escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush for U.S. citizenship, applied for her first papers...
...during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened his own La Conga in Hollywood, followed it with several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative rum drink...
...hard to be. On the other hand, it has some touches of humor and acting that save it from being the slow wash-out that so many Hollywood comedies have been in recent months. The plot concerns the trails and tribulations of James Stewart, an impecunious writer, and Hedy Lamarr, a refugee without citizenship papers, when the latter requests the former to marry her to save her from deportation. This situation is complicated by the fact that Ian Hunter wants to marry Miss Lamarr but is unable to because of all things, he is already married...
...Ziegfeld Girls turn out like Sheila. Two who glorify differently are sultry Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr), who discovers that the violinist husband she left behind is more exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does...
...plays his usual role of a nice, intelligent, slightly bewildered, but withal noble-charactered country lad at large in the big city, with a reasonable persuasiveness. But he has had this same part for so long that it is getting to be a little on the tiring side. Hedy Lamarr lets the cameraman accentuate the contrast between the whiteness of her skin and darkness of her eyes and hair, and tries to hide the fact that her figure is not what the simmer in her eyes would lead us to believe. But she does no acting, says nothing funny...