Word: luscious
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...around with strange grins on their faces through exotic restaurants, pawn shops, gambling dens, and little French fishing towns, Hedy, at her lovliest, is the most mysterious character of all. But since Paul Henreld, a loyal Dutchman, falls in love with her, it's easy to guess how the luscious Lamarr ends...
Kismet is luscious to look at. And more often than not its fantasy falls victim to its opulence. Old Bagdad looks suspiciously like the inside of a Hollywood nightclub...
...tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy have not forgotten him. At regular intervals, Goodman & band offer welcome distraction from this quavery little plot with such tunes as Ten Days with Baby...
...like this. Given a plot and a cast as good as this picture offers, the rotund master of mystery would have turned out a film to tingle the spines of audiences in every corner of the globe, but Hitchcock did not direct this one and it shows it. Even luscious Barbara Stanwyck, a new and surprisingly good Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson at his best fail to save "Double Indemnity" from the bottomloss list of Hollywood's fumbled chances...
Mexico's famed muralist Diego Rivera, who recently decorated the walls of Mexico City's swank Ciro's nightclub with luscious, careless, postcardish nudes, stayed away from the Picasso opening. But he had an anti-Picasso blast ready for the first reporter who came his way. Roared he: "The Society's role is clear: to serve those trying to preserve European cultural . . . domination. . . . Behind this show are dealers. . . . This is proved by the fact that [the Society's] activities were begun with a non-American artist of overwhelming prestige...