Word: lamour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BACK IN THE Forties one of the most popular and successful creations in the film world was the "road" movie. In these films Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour thrilled movie audiences with reel after reel of celluloid adventures and misadventures. Such cinematic tidbits as The Road to Rio and The Road to Hong Kong, along with a raft of "roads" to other exotic and far-away places, saturated the movie market with innocent and plotless travelogues...
...crest of the "road" phenomenon to success at the box office wanted to revive this form of film entertainment, they could well begin right here in Cambridge. The movie would be called "The Road to Moscow," and it would integrate the forties travel motif that brought Hope, Crosby and Lamour fame and fortune with a seriousness of purpose quite alien to the fluff and whimsy that characterized earlier efforts...
...good. I would work in pictures today if I were a young man." Zukor accepted homage from people like Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Diana Ross and Michael Caine. There were rose petals (70 packages of them), a rope of flowers and a real live Dorothy Lamour, escorted by two chimpanzees named Bob and Bing. Columnist Earl Wilson asked some guests whether they would like to be 100. "I don't think so," said Bette Davis. "Yes, but I'd only admit to being 90," said Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...Bergen, Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger, Pat Boone, Les Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Cyd Charisse, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Day, Yvonne de Carlo, Don DeFore, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Joanne Dru, Irene Dunne, Clint Eastwood, Rhonda Fleming, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Virginia Grey, June Haver, Hildegarde, Bob Hope, Sammy Kaye, Lainie Kazan, Dorothy Lamour, Art Linkletter, Fred MacMurray, Gordon MacRae, Tony Martin, Virginia Mayo, Ann Miller, Mary Ann Mobley, Terry Moore, Ken Murray, Lloyd Nolan, Hugh O'Brian, John Payne, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Raymond, Cesar Romero, Red Skelton, Julie Sommars, James Stewart, Rudy Vallee, Hal Wallis, John Wayne...
...Hollywood oldtimers was a veteran of the bad old days when onscreen kissing was a pretty close-mouthed business and cinematic adultery seemed something like bundling. Yet they expressed somewhat disparate views of the unbuttoned mores of modern movies. "Call me a prude or a square," said Dorothy Lamour, 56, "but I'm not happy with a lot .of dirty movies. What we did was sex, but it was clean sex." As samples of this phenomenon, Dorothy cited her famous sarong, "which suggested nudity," and her love scenes "in the jungle with Ray Milland−all clean, bright...