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...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 of the Cross, 1932) in what must be the only known instance of a striptease accomplished swallow by swallow...
...given. The opposition cracked that "classical music was undoubtedly too good a sequel" to Mrs. Bandaranaike's oratory, but jittery disk jockeys began fine-combing their collections for all sorts of song titles that might sound derogatory, such as I Kiss Your Hand, Madame, The Lady Is a Tramp and Bye Bye Blues-since blue is the official color of her Freedom Party...
...costumes, traditionally Early Elizabethan, became instead Late Salvation Army; most of the wardrobe was scrounged from thrift shops. The king wore ski pants; his scepter was a three-foot-long egg beater. The queen's ornate crown was made of plastic spoons melted together. One tramp had a hockey player's metal groin protector sewed to this pants, another swigged wine from a rubber enema...
...birth of the Tramp changed that...
Anecdotes & Omissions. His book is wonderfully revealing of the sources of his art, which developed the Tramp from the foot-in-the-cuspidor antics of the early two-reelers to the intense tragicomic ironies of those two flawed masterpieces, Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight. But it is uneven and uncommunicative about his many loves and his vociferous left-wing politics, supplying instead great heaps of anecdotes about his encounters with famous people from Einstein and Gandhi to Pablo Casals, Chou Enlai, and Khrushchev...