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...Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again...
Neither Sir Ernest nor his heir needs fear that the prime source of the dynasty's power will ever diminish. One of the first great Randlords, old Barney Barnato, put it tersely, many years before Flapper Lorelei Lee: "Women are born every day, and men will always buy diamonds for women...
...Lorelei. In Detroit, three wives filed nonsupport suits against their husbands, all three of whom, the complaining women testified, had gone off with a Mrs. Lorraine Brandon...
There was certainly a lot of 1929's heady, champagne flavor about the U.S. in 1950, right down to the biggest bull market in 20 years. Gold-Digger Lorelei Lee was a reigning musical-comedy queen; F. Scott Fitzgerald had not only been enthusiastically revived, but was the hero of a novel that led the bestseller lists. Nightclubs were jammed, theater tickets occasionally went for $50 apiece, and useless luxuries-men's garters trimmed in 14-carat gold, mink scarves for three-year-olds, diamond-studded car keys-were salable items again. In an offhand manner, a Houston...
Leaving an understudy to play gold-digging Lorelei Lee for a couple of weeks, mop-haired Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing hustled off to a Manhattan hospital to have her tonsils...