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Word: pert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lemmon, reading his lines at a steady 130 decibels, is the spoof villain. As black-clad Professor Fate, equipped with a stovepipe hat, a moustache to twirl and gnomish assistant (Peter Falk), he is forever launching devilish devices against Leslie and forever being Foiled Again. Natalie Wood is a pert, cigar-puffing suffragette who goes along as girl reporter on the great automobile race from New York tp Paris, via Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sock & Row | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...NATO general, and grabbing a payroll of about ?1,000,000. Mastermind of the scheme is a bespectacled genius (Anton Rodgers) who operates a crime school fronting as a nature clinic where dotty old ladies imbibe mineral water laced with gin. Rodgers' girl friend (Charlotte Rampling) is a pert socialite making her criminal debut as the temptress assigned to dazzle a lieutenant of the armed guards, though much of her wickedness is spent in murdering the Queen's English with such nauseous effusions as "how rave-making" or "supremo!" All of Rotten's cast labors mightily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Belabored Muse | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...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 the smoke with a pert English brunette in tow. "I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara," Myron announced dramatically. David Selznick agreed, signed up Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Producer Prince | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...Change Things." Before that, Simon had met a pert, Wellesley-trained social worker named Lucille Ellis at a Thanksgiving party, married her after a three-month courtship. "We danced a lot," says Lucille Simon of the courtship. "While he isn't that winning a dancer, his dialogue is great." For a honeymoon, Simon took his bride on a cruise through the Panama Canal, then went on a week's tour of East Coast steel mills to learn about the tin making that affected his tomato canning. One stop: at Wheeling Steel in West Virginia, where Simon informed Lucille: "Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: The Corporate Cezanne | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

Producer-Director Richard Quine and his scenarists shape the story as an obtuse triangle inclined toward a pert reformed prostitute (Stella Stevens), just the sort of girl to make two able-bodied ex-convicts (Chuck Connors and Alex Cord) change their habits. The dialogue is more square than daring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hung Up | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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