Word: photogenicism
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Eventually, the camera gazes up at a sinister doctor (Housely Stevenson) who proposes to revise Bogart's face beyond the Law's recognition. For several reels more, the hero is visible only as an actor staging efficient silhouettes in a dark suit, his head masked in a glaring...
Stalin was something of an enigma and Churchill, says Reilly, was completely understood only by Fala, the President's photogenic Scottie. Churchill once sent Roosevelt a dozen records of his favorite speeches. They were smashed when Secret Service agents became suspicious of the package. "I told F.D.R. of his...
Nancy Oakes de Marigny, whom tragedy once made a brightly lit public figure, made a photogenic reappearance (see cut) in happier circumstances. Occasion: a whopping coming-out party for sister Shirley. Scene: Nassau in the Bahamas, where wealthy Sir Harry Oakes, the girls' father, was mysteriously murdered in 1943...
Photogenic Faye Emerson Roosevelt and her husband (the late President's scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their host, who had been ailing at Sochi in the Caucasus, looked very well, as indeed he...
Meditation on the ghostwriting of presidential speeches moved Novelist James Hilton (Lost Horizon) to a startling proposal. Why stop at speechwriting? he demanded in the Atlantic. "The late President was fortunate in having a magical radio personality; but for some future President who hasn't," Hilton tactfully put it...