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...millions of Americans, the pert, sexy, but basically "nice" girl that Betty plays on the screen is young American womanhood at its best. To the eager young man, the ambitious stenographer, the Hollywood-hungry mother resolutely dragging her little daughter off to dancing school, Betty represents an attainable goal, a daydream that might come true. Grable's own life is a proof of the dream...
Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn. But Moira does have what one starry-eyed London critic called "deerlike littleness and midsummer coloring...
Mature effectively extends his new lease on life as a sympathetic tough guy (Kiss of Death). Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do. Reginald Gardiner, one of the villains, suffers very well as a man who has fallen so low that the mere dodging of death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek...
Most popular of the contestants swaying among the klieg-lighted diners was pert Jacqueline Donny of France, displaying a smartly cut bathing suit and a perfectly round navel. When the votes were in, Miss France was provisional winner. Observed Miss America '46, putting away her glasses: "Miss France won by a navel...
...Goose. Coaltown was a horse the horseplayers really loved. A walnut-brown with a pert personality, he had been beaten only once (by Citation in the Kentucky Derby). His admirers were certain that it could never happen again. Because he ran with his head cocked on one side, his long neck outstretched, they called him "The Goose." At the post, his odds were...