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Word: lovelies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movies had begun to talk, and Tallulah returned to the U.S. to get a word in. Under a $100,000 Paramount contract, she played bad girls redeemed by the love of a good man in a series of pictures with titles that now sound like perfumes ( Tarnished Lady, My Sin, Faithless). The pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Domestic Life. For all her highly publicized love life, Tallulah has had just one engagement and one marriage. The engagement, in London in 1928, was brief. It was virtually all over when her fiance, Count Anthony de Bosdari, told a reporter: "I am the master. I will do the talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...secret wedding came out when he was sued recently for divorce) manages the Manhattan dominion of the empire, while Jake tends more to the colonies. They often work together on producing, have turned out as many as 16 shows in one season. Their formula: "All plays have to have love interest. If you have no love interest, you have no play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys from Syracuse | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Mitchum gets mixed up in plot, he has a friendly shooting match with the rancher's daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes). She snipes at him as he tries to ford a stream. He retaliates by shooting the heel off her boot. At some point in this exchange of lead, love blossoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald) are more admirable than the pack of voracious relatives who are snarling over scraps of a great estate. Ilka Chase and Monty Woolley are a help in waspish supporting roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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