Word: lana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold day somewhere when the reigning American sex queen is a middle-aged housewife, but that is the situation now. Hollywood's highest flying skirts and tightest slacks now belong to Carroll Baker. Through simooms of expensive publicity, she occupies the place of Marilyn Monroe and all the Lana Turners, Jean Harlows, and Theda Baras before...
Unfortunately for everyone, you are right-there are no shimmering stars to replace the big ones we know. But even more unfortunate for the actresses of the new generation is the fact that the big star-making machines that built up Lana's sweater, lowered Jane's decolletage and then put them on display in countless films, are no longer in existence. We find that we have to do it on our own, and it "ain't easy." The T.N.T. is there, but the only explosions come from the frustrations of not being able to strut...
...Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's last legend of sex. Fighting men in training for Cassino and Saipan were supplied with endless photos of film Aphrodites-Jane Russell in the hay; Rita Hayworth in a negligee; Betty Grable wearing high heels, an ankle bracelet, and a one-piece bathing suit; Lana Turner in the sweater...
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Rains of Ranchipur, a triangle with Lana Turner. Richard Burton, Michael Rennie...
...career fanned to promise and even moments of greatness, he salted his interludes with movies. Everyone does this. Sir Laurence Olivier was in Spartacus. But Burton's serious work on the stage began to atrophy as he gave himself increasingly to films, playing opposite an odd assortment of ladies?Lana Turner, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Simmons?in weak pictures wherein he was miscast. Given his professional fears and the economic spareness of his beginnings, it is not hard to understand why he would shy from the stage toward the greater money and simpler disciplines of pictures, even though his strongest...