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...final version, she couldn't have looked prettier to Paramount tycoons if she had been fitted with Lana Turner's head. When Paramount's advertising director saw the finished product in Manhattan he turned to his secretary and bade her take a wire to Producer Irving Asher in Hollywood. "Say this " he instructed. "This girl is Miss Crosby! Don't let anybody teach...
...recollections of the star that are the basis of the film, however. Looking sleek and youthful, Lana Turner tears through a top-notch performance as a boozy actress. And Kirk Dougas, who is a scheming Shields in the first and third episodes, gives the producer more force and emotion in this second part. But the brilliance of the performers is not matched in the dialogue; too often it is the "drop dead" variety...
Married. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping, 39, nightclubbing tin-plate heir; and brunette Mona Mae Moedl, 24, Sun Valley skating instructor; he for the fifth time (No. 4: Cinemactress Lana Turner) she for the second; in Salt Lake City...
...Beautiful (MGM) are a gaudy assortment of film folk in a movie about the movies. There is a ruthless Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas), who is bad; an alcoholic actress (Lana Turner), who is beautiful; a hard-working director (Barry Sullivan) and a Pulitzer Prizewinning author (Dick Powell), who are neither bad nor beautiful...
...some standard Hollywood types, e.g., a yes-man (Paul Stewart), a small-time agent (Sammy White), a money-minded tycoon (Walter Pidgeon), a sexy bit-girl (Elaine Stewart). But, though some of the characters may be bad and others beautiful, few are either real or believable. As the actress, Lana Turner looks lushly beautiful. As the author, Dick Powell bases his characterization on tweedy suits and a pipe. The most convincing character in the picture is not a Hollywood type, but a fluttery Southern belle, smartly played by Gloria Grahame...