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Word: mitzie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dress Doctor is crammed with this sort of peep-show item. Some readers may be fascinated to learn that Eva Marie Saint has "a perfectly good figure," that Mitzi Gaynor, in the right kind of "red-spangled straight jacket," exhibits a "rounded female figure, good bosom, tiny waist," or that Hedy Lamarr, though "she's slim, actually," does not allow herself to be padded out. As for Anna Magnani, "When she undressed, we were amazed. Under the black slacks and sweater was the most exquisite of black French foundations." Sophia Loren refuses to wear blue jeans, and Designer Head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: How Not to Wear a Tub | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...fronted tradition begun by the late Starlet Simone Silva four years ago, consented to some slightly untrammeled poses for photographers. Bulging into the limelight in a different way, a well-turned bevy of cinema quail (Italy's sunbrowned Sophia Loren, Russia's Tatiana Samoilova, Hollywood's Mitzi Gaynor and Russia's Lino Yudina) stood shoulder to shoulder in a wary display of international solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...which makes use of characters and situations in James Michener's bestselling Tales of the South Pacific, tells what happens during the early days of the war in the Pacific to some naval officers, men and nurses on a U.S-held island in the New Hebrides. Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) falls in love Some Enchanted Evening with a middle-aged French planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...high-school days in Budapest, Teller was, as he puts it today, a "square" (pronounced, in his thick accent, "skvare"). Favorite amusements were chess, hiking, poetry and music. Among the subjects of his poems was a chum's brainy, grey-eyed younger sister, Mici (pronounced Mitzi), who shared young Teller's enthusiasm for mathematics and that special Hungarian passion, pingpong. Eventually they were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Knowledge Is Power | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...productions). The picture has only a second-drawer score by Cole Porter, but Director George Cukor has shrewdly managed to make the least of it, and to make the most of a marvelous run of creative luck. Gene Kelly dances less than usual, and rather better. Mitzi Gaynor, whose face most Hollywood cameramen have in the past been careful to undertook, is revealed to have a bright and charming one that is capable of expressing a rather pretty wit. And Taina Elg, a ballerina seen in her first important screen role, will undoubtedly be seen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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