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Miss Darnell, who can be a temptress without even trying, has never shown so strikingly that she can be an actress as well. But, in a picture crowded with skilled performances-by Kirk Douglas, Miss Sothern, and Thelma Ritter as an aggressively democratic maid-of-all-work-Paul Douglas' spaniel-faced portrait of a tough guy stands by itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Furia (Italian). A refreshingly candid, rather steamy, essentially adolescent film about rural adultery, with good work by Isa Pola as the frankest movie temptress in years. Earnest, but overrated by those who think that the Italians (Open City, Shoe Shine, etc.) can do no wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Foreign Films | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Rumors that the costume of Eve in the HDC's next week production of "Adam the Creator" would consist of three strategically located fig leaves were emphatically spiked last night by Miss Kaye Horan, Radcliffe '48, portrayer of the Biblical temptress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fig Leaf Frustration Ended As 'Cliffe Eve Wears Tunic | 11/8/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 31, svelte contralto of the Metropolitan Opera and first American in 22 years to sing the exacting role of Philistine Temptress Delilah (in Samson and Delilah); and Walter Szurovy, 33, Hungarian stage and screen actor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Nicolas Vincent. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Following nights, the Met noodled through a routine Walküre, a passable Madame Butterfly. Then it presented Samson and Delilah, with its first U. S.GALLERY-GOERS AT THE MET Also present: orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They Opened the Opera | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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