Word: loose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a London chorus girl, she had wangled some bit parts in British movies, e.g., the cigarette girl in the opening scene of Alec Guinness' Lavender Hill Mob. Then a Paramount scout in London spotted her. One picture, called Monte Carlo Baby, called for location shots in Monaco'...
That afternoon a startled young actress listened in saucer-eyed wonder as M. Maurice Goudeket explained that his wife, the great Colette, had personally picked her to play the lead in a Broadway play. A few weeks later, after an expensive exchange of cablegrams and consultations with Broadway Producer Gilbert...
But, for all the three-dimensional attractions of its two leading ladies, this is a rather flat cinemusical. This version adds flashy songs, dances, Technicolor, a present-day setting and a happy ending to Anita Loos's famed 1925 bestseller about the fine art of gold digging during the...
Adapting Gigi from Colette's novel, Anita Loos has weighted a delicate story a bit too heavily with farce, and the cast scurries through the lines as though intent on catching the 10:35 out of town. Due perhaps to an over-familiarity with the script after a year on...
Gigi (adapted by Anita Loos from Colette's novel; produced by Gilbert Miller) is the adolescent daughter-in turn-of-the-century Paris-of an established line of cocottes. Though her mother and grandmother never succeeded in being elegantly maintained, they firmly insist that the traditions of their calling...