Word: sarong
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Then, as it must in all sarong epics, catastrophe intrudes on the idyl. The island volcano (realistically played by Hawaii's erupting Mauna Loa) sends fiery lava streaming into the valley, and Jourdan's bride gets her orders from the kahuna to appease the gods by leaping into the angry crater...
...Hollywood, newshens of the Women's Press Club voted Errol Flynn and Rita Hayworth* the "least cooperative" actor and actress of the year. Runners-up: Bing Crosby (a perennial) and Shirley Temple. The "most cooperative": Dorothy Lamour, past mistress of the sarong, and Glenn Ford, Rita's most recent screen leading...
Engagements on the mainland followed. San Francisco thought Hattie was a scream; so did the patrons of Manhattan's sophisticated St. Regis Hotel. During the war, Hattie acted with Jinx Falkenberg and Betty Grable in a couple of sarong-draped movies. In the U.S., she also made some recordings and discarded her third husband (she is currently unmarried). Last year, between mainland triumphs, she went home and took to the air. With a disc jockey program on Honolulu's KPOA and an amateur hour on rival station KGMB, she registered her first solid hit with the natives...
...rococo background. Notable eye-filling items: the King's four gold-&-diamond crowns ($84,000) and 23 silk-&-brocade costumes ($23,000); a coronation scene costing $80,000; a well-filled harem stocked with the loveliest of 200 lovely extras; Linda Darnell in the Siamese equivalent of a sarong...
...drawn-out melange of corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...