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...Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend" is a merry and colorful concoction of topflight stars, tuneful song hits, grand production, and youthful romance spiced with the Preston Sturges brand of roaring comedy. La Grable displays all of her luscious charms in the role of a trigger-happy heroine with the biggest six-shooters in the West . . . --From a Metropolitan Theatre Press Release
...about the same time, when Porter had been solidly established in the theater for some five years, luscious Lucius Beebe, self-made expert on the art of splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness...
...life is possible because the producers hit upon the idea of employing real ballet dancers to play the parts. Robert Helpmann, who is not only the biggest attraction in British ballet but also a Shakespearean actor, is given a featured role. Ludmilla Teherina plays herself, a temperamental but very luscious prima ballerina...
...looks were really something. Cecil Beaton called her "... A wicked archangel with . . . carven features . . . Her eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...
Miss Greer wears an extensive and luscious assortment of jigsawed gowns, and uses her eyes, mouth and bosom so effectively that it soon becomes clear that she was born too late. Back in the disreputable old days of silent movies, when sex was sex, she would have become a major star very fast. Today, she seems as anachronistic as a Virginia royalist. But it is a pleasure to watch her work...