Word: montez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pavan, 23, lissome Italian film star (The Rose Tattoo), twin sister of Cinemactress Pier Angeli; and Jean Pierre Aumont (real name: Jean Pierre Salomons), 46, wavy-haired French actor (The Heavenly Twins, Lili); she for the first time, he for the second (his first: the late Cinema Siren Maria Montez); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Word on Lola Sir: I was distressed to read in your Jan. 2 issue the description of the incomparable Lola Montez as a "hussy." My dictionary defines "hussy" as a "worthless creature," and surely a woman who was able to counsel kings and inspire geniuses was not worthless, and her mastery of the arts of love was a supreme accomplishment...
Thereafter, she played herself in her own foolish part on the stage in a presentation called Lola Montez in Bavaria. When a performance went wrong in Philadelphia, she knew whom to blame. The conductor, she stormed, had smuggled Jesuits into the orchestra to sabotage her dance. So it went all round the world-lawsuits, horsewhippings, fake suicides, fainting spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense...
Such a one was Lola Montez, the notable 19th century hussy, whose beauty and calculated hysteria drove strong men mad -particularly King Ludwig I of Bavaria. * During her life, women were oddly immune to her power. The victims were the gentlemen of Berlin, Paris, London and New York whose heaving breasts and creaking shirt fronts provided the obbligato for her "abandoned" dancing. But now that Lola is safely buried these 94 years in Brooklyn, the ladies, especially the lady writers, have been taken over...
Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace (The Country Girl) Kelly, commonly billed as an icy goddess, melted perceptibly in the company of French Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont, a widower since his wife, fiery Cinemactress Maria Montez, died in 1951. Reunited at the Cannes Film Festival after two years apart, Grace and handsome Aumont promptly began to act as if the thing were bigger than both of them. They danced on clouds, held and kissed each other's hands in cozy rendezvous, mooned at each other in public. But had Aumont, who came and thawed, actually conquered Grace? Said...