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...lethal essence of the Black Hill Poppy from Tibet ("A pint can kill every living thing in London"). Fu's evil daughter (Tsai Chin) seizes the professor's daughter as hostage and undertakes the dirty deeds formerly assigned to such exotics as Anna May Wong and Myrna Loy. There are vestiges of the old potency in the farfetched fights, a sinister drowning apparatus in a hideout below the Thames, the mass destruction of a peaceful English village. The indestructible Fu finally goes up in flames in a Himalayan monastery, taking the High Lama with him and still muttering...
...Hollywood, Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Carole Lombard, Joan Fontaine and Myrna Loy advanced with Selznick's help. From abroad came Ingrid Bergman. But far and away, Selznick's most-discussed discovery was actually not his but his brother Myron's. In 1938 G.W.T.W. had gone into production with the hunt for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara still in full cry.* While the old sets on Selznick's 40-acre lot in Culver City, Calif., were being fired and thus providing the climactic scene of the burning of Atlanta, Myron emerged through...
...Alan Jay Lerner. Carol Channing was there in a white stovepipe hat two feet high and an enormous pair of wrap-around sunglasses that would embarrass a Greyhound bus driver. I learned later that President Kennedy's sisters Pat and Jean were there, Anita Loos, Walter Wanger, Myrna Loy, Adolph Green, and Elizabeth Taylor's mother and father. Some of the other women there were really risque in those new gowns that show so much...
Frankly, if my hunches are right, I cannot imagine anyone who has read this far shelling out $3.60 to view such incredible denounment. Especially since you now know who did it. Charade, beyond doubt, is just another futile Hollywood attempt to reproduce a giddy thriller of the William Powell-Myrna Loy-Asta Thin Man vintage...
...night, and the dinner went off so well that Romanoff sent out for a ring and chartered a plane. Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...