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...Lorelei Lee, who believes that diamonds are a girl's best friend, Marilyn Monroe does the best job of her short career to date. Her almost surrealist figure, quite as implausible as a Petty girl's, fascinates every male aboard a transatlantic luxury liner, from a monocled old millionaire (Charles Coburn) to a six-year-old boy with a valet and a foghorn voice (George Winslow). In the process, she also sings remarkably well,* dances, or rather undulates all over, flutters the heaviest eyelids in show business, and breathlessly delivers such lines of dialogue as "Coupons-that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Lorelei. In Middletown, Conn., asked why he took a plunge into the Connecticut River, William Hartman told police: "Mermaids called me. Gosh, they were beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...lyrics written in Moscow and a melody plagiarized from the song of the Lorelei, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced a big turnabout in Communist tactics in East Germany. "The Politburo, in these decisions," said the announcement, "has in mind the great goal of German unity." Some of the decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Warm Front | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Along the way, three wives, identified only as Lorelei I, Lorelei II and Lorelei III, and numerous off-course mermaids got caught up in Aiken's voyage. He was never able to stay settled down for long in one country or the other; his way of life, as a young woman once told him, hardly provided the sort of homestead a woman dreams of-"roses peeping in, you know, and babies peeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sirens & Symbols | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Elaborating on her character's gold digging activities, Miss Channing remarked: "In Lorelei's era, before income taxes, there were loads of diamonds floating around. I think any girl who didn't latch on to some was a fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crowded Law Coffee Hour Hears Carol Channing on Musical Comedy | 5/2/1952 | See Source »

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