Word: loreleis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of three a day. Anita Loos was planning a new show for her, and so was Joshua Logan. There were plans afoot to star her in a radio program and a television show. There were offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei doll modeled on Carol's lines. Even the glacial captains of café society's most chichi saloons, "21" and the Stork, went out of their way to bow effusively and greet her by name. "Everything," said Carol in her own peculiar idiom, "has leveled off just wonderfully...
...gold-digging Lorelei Lee in the new musical version of Anita Loos's famed bestseller of the '20s, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 153 Ibs.) Carol Channing is ludicrously miscast. Her head, topped by an unruly peroxide burlesque of a flapper's hairdo, seems too small for her generous features. Set insecurely on the top of a columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please...
...waving a flag in a sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole expressive body flows with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented in the quaint misspellings of her slim novel back in 1925, Actress Channing hurls across the footlights...