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Irma La Douce. A French musical as fetching and airy as a bouffant petticoat stars Elizabeth Seal, whose song-and-dance skill and saucy insouciance flesh out her personable part as everybody's dream tart...
Irma La Douce. A French musical as fetching and airy as a bouffant petticoat stars Elizabeth Seal, who convinces with her singing and dancing that she can really do no wrong, despite her role as a prostitute...
...women stayed in the hills, bringing to Castro's disorganized camp a touch of petticoat efficiency. Most important girl rebel was Celia Sanchez, an olive-skinned brunette of about 30. Castro's secretary and money handler, she was a key personage in the headquarters after Castro; captains and lieutenants moved on her orders as though the "commandante" had personally given them. Haydee Santamaria, 31, now the wife of Education Minister Armando Hart, joined the uprising after Batista's jailers killed her rebel fiance and brother. In Castro's casual headquarters she was a cook one moment...
...According to Hollywood scuttlebutt, Gary Grant has turned the tables on Universal-International. Instead of taking a percentage from the studio for his current film, Operation Petticoat, Grant is said to have persuaded the studio to take a percentage from him (10% of the gross) while he produces the picture...
...photo-reporting does is catch the warmth, richness, foolishness and occasional moodiness of the most protean, joyous, impish and intense artist of the century. The most interesting shots are of Picasso hamming it up. Duncan caught him greeting a fine day by dancing on the balcony in a petticoat and an African helmet, wearing an apelike mask, trying a ballet pas de deux with Jacqueline...