Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first appearance as a Technicoloratura, still sings charmingly and still suggests what she has only once had half-a-chance (in Christmas Holiday) to prove: that she is a big girl now, and could step out of her candy box to become one of the most high-powered sex-actresses in Hollywood...
...most professional new cinema outfit. International Pictures (Casanova Brown, Woman at the Window). As a musicomic vehicle for Gypsy Rose Lee, it is hampered not only by its own slowfootedness but by the fact that Miss Lee, America's most literate ecdysiast, has learned to silver-plate her sex with such cultivated English that she suggests Lady Windermere's Fan Dance...
...lingerie or stockings. But she became easily the nation's foremost magazine-cover and hat model, had her face plastered on tens of thousands of cigaret-advertising billboards. At $50 an hour, the highest modeling fee ever paid, she sometimes made more than $1,000 a week. Her sex appeal was attested by such demonstrations as the receipt from various male admirers one Christmas of no less than 44 bottles of her favorite, $40-an-oz. perfume. Hollywood was the almost inevitable next step. She took it-and flopped...
Mumps, in childhood, is no more serious than it sounds, but for grownups it is not only painful but risky (worst complication: sex glands are affected, and sometimes sterility results...
Hand in Glove (adapted from Gerald Savory's novel Hughie Roddis by the author and Charles K. Freeman; produced by Arthur Edison) commits many crimes but not the fatal one of dullness. A grim pathological thriller, it has a double focus on a young sex psychopath who murders young girls, and on an idiot boy whom the murderer tries to frame...