Word: moll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very idea would be enough to set Clausewitz cackling in his grave. Yet last week unionization of the West German army was proceeding apace-with the approval of both Bonn and the Bundeswehr. At a meeting with West German labor leaders in Baden this month, Army Inspector General Josef Moll put his blessing on the union. "My presence," he declared, "proves to you that we generals recognize the constitutional right of soldiers to organize in labor unions...
Divorced. By Kim Novak, 33, Hollywood package often undone by her films (Kiss Me, Stupid, The Notorious Landlady): Richard Johnson, 38, dour British actor and her co-star in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty (he refused to live in the U.S.), after 15 months of marriage, no children; in Salinas, Calif...
...survive he moved to Hollywood and quickly established himself as a character actor in the tough-guy tradition-a kind of punk's Bogart. Today old movie buffs still see him on TV reruns, barking at his moll, Gloria Grahame, Vivian Blaine or Marie McDonald: "I fought I told ya to wait in da car." He ran his luck through nearly 150 movie roles, but by 1941 gangster parts were declared bad for the image of a nation at war. As the clean-cut types moved in, Leonard moved out to the one medium where he could be heard...
...Moll's pals are as colorful a lot of rogues, ruffians and lairdly wenchers as an ambitious servant girl could wish. In the country, after her master's elder son (Daniel Massey) has blithely ruined her, she marries his foolish brother and is promptly widowed. En route to London, she outwits a dashing highwayman (Richard Johnson) and meets her husband-to-be, George Sanders, who steals the show as a passionate Puritan debilitated by the labors of love. The comedy reaches a peak of unbuttoned ribaldry in a shipboard rendezvous between Moll and her beloved highwayman, interrupted abed...
...film is flawed by a scenario that often strives to make raciness respectable. Defoe's Moll was a hardheaded tart who used her ill-gotten lovers for gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an end as a conventional romantic heroine. Appropriately, in Moll's real-life postscript, Actress Novak and Leading Man Johnson became husband and wife, which makes their wide-screen hanky-panky seem unimpeachably legitimate...