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...Lasky gave Flaherty $250,000 to make a similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...
...Havana, but the Commies screwed it up). Oh yeah, Nathan's got a stripper he's engaged to for fourteen years, named Adelaide, she's the best thing in the show. She knows how to move. And she's got a great voice. Kind of like a cop siren with a cold...
Divorced. By Joan Bennett, 55, movie siren of the 1930s (Careless Lady): Walter Wanger, 71, veteran film producer (Joan of Arc, Cleopatra), who in 1952 served 15 weeks in jail for jealously shooting her agent, Jennings Lang, in the groin; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Siren Song. George Papandreou, as leader of the largest party in Parliament, sat through the sessions on Constantine's left hand. He was openly contemptuous of the palace's "lures of power," which, with his orator's gift for a telling phrase, he had likened publicly to those of Circe, Ulysses' sorceress, whose lures transformed men into pigs. "Do you think," he asked Constantine, rhetorically, "that if you can get 115 Deputies in Parliament [i.e., a bare majority], you can face the people and me?" His own siren song consisted of the familiar demand for national...
...shooting Hinds, the first mate. I ran upstairs to tell the captain. He was dead, lying crosswise on the bridge." Elwin ran to hide in the chain locker. After two hours, he heard the engine stop. Then nothing-for 16 hours-until he heard the patrol boat's siren wail...