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...just another pronoun. After that, It became the most provocative two-letter word in the language-all because of her. She was Clara Bow, the ultimate flapper for the movie audiences of the '20s, grown too sophisticated for the synthetic, exotic Theda Bara ("Kiss me, my fool") and Pola Negri. Clara Bow, by contrast, was as fresh and authentic as the girl next door, only more so. She had enormous saucer eyes, dimpled knees, bee-stung lips and a natural boop-poop-a-doop style. She was the cat's pajamas, the gnat's knees...
...young miss can become a myth with sufficient luck, sufficient talent, of perhaps just a well-placed lisp. Sensation seekers lured by its title will find The Love Goddesses a disappointment. But movie buffs will happily sit through Harlow, Hayworth, Turner, Monroe, Taylor, Loren and Bardot to see tempestuous Pola Negri taking a whip to small-town prudes (Woman of the World, 1925); a giddy Greta Garbo clomping around in a tank suit for her first Swedish film (Peter the Tramp, 1922); and durable Claudette Colbert sharing her milk bath with two thirsty black cats (DeMille's Sign...
Sirs: I found to my great surprise that my age was increased four years by you in the article, "Thrills, Spills & Pola Negri" [Nov. 20]. The magazine stated that I was 69 years old. In reality, according to my birth certificate and passport, I was born on the 31st of December...
...POLA NEGRI...
...film's choicest surprise occurs in the last reel or so, when Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...