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...Iron Petticoat (MGM) is practically a remake of the old Greta Garbo-Melvyn Douglas comedy about how Lenin's glass-of-water theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...first thing I did on hearing of your withdrawal from The Iron Petticoat was to seek out my other fan, Dr. Shurr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ex-Partners | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...correspondence this way in print. It lifts The Iron Petticoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ex-Partners | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...This is to notify you that I have removed my name as author from our mutilated venture, The Iron Petticoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ex-Partners | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...assured by my hopeful predators that The Iron Petticoat will go over big with people 'who can't get enough of Bob Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ex-Partners | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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