Word: laurens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-billed "Merchant of Venus," Walter Thornton ran one of the three biggest model agencies in the U.S. He claims to be the discoverer of Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire, Lizabeth Scott and Arlene Dahl, and the first to use the phrase "pinup girl." He also has shown a talent for getting publicity for Walter Thornton. Of modeling, he once said: "This business gets 1,000% more publicity than it deserves...
...team's weakest event is the pole vault, which has only two candidates, one of whom has been inactive since the beginning of the season because of a pulled tendon. Dave Richard, the other vaulter, has been filling in well for the injured Lauren Studebaker...
Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe, cast as three little lovebirds in search of a gilded cage, decide that the best way to catch a millionaire is to set a trap. They set one, accordingly, in a sublet apartment on Manhattan's Sutton Place-a happy hunting ground for mink, the script says-and bait it with everything they've got, which is mostly cheesecake. Millionaires apparently like the bait as well as most fellows, and pretty soon they are wolfing away at the door. In the end, of course, the filthy lucre loses out to nice...
...mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his "lodge" in Maine...
Latest in the How To series (How To Win Friends, How To Be Happy Though Drafted, etc.) the film is singularly uninstructive. Leggy Lauren Bacall is the only prospector of a mercenary trio to strike matrimonial pay-dirt. Less fortunate, Misses Monroe and Betty Grable trade loot for love and their gold rush fails...