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...Read this letter as if it were my love testament," wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, "because it is the last one that you will get ... If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free myself of this amorous vise-remember how you hurt me-those were waves of revolt...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
...evening ripped along. Two student-type males moved into a table across from us with two Wellesley type girls. Their order, two scotches and two cokes, was taken. The men lit cigars and Jeaned back while the girls beat frantically on the table. A pert female photographer saw them and invitingly addressed the leader of the repp-tied party. "How about a picture, sonny?" He picked up his drink, took a careful swallow, and consulted the group. "Sure, baby, sure," he said...
...Girls. Chicago's Gillette Elvgren, a whiz in this field, did Fresh Breeze. He says that all his girls are "the Minnesota type, naive and fresh"-eyes set wide apart, nose pert and short, lips full-small waist, long legs, full bust-age, preferably under 21 -and "they've got to be alive." Elvgren's stereotyped girls may not come alive on canvas, but they do in people's minds...
Susan Hayward, 32, a pert-nosed, durable redhead who after 29 routine pictures is being molded to super siren parts. Her current picture: David and Bathsheba...