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...shoot back at a 45 degrees angle, resting on 5-in. stiletto heels. It was a pair of Ferragamo high heels that Monroe was wearing in The Seven Year Itch when the warm air from a subway grate famously raised her skirt. Ferragamo's shoes were sexy without being trampish. His come-get-me shoes were elegant, not overt, their allure coming from the fact that they simultaneously revealed and concealed, which is the secret of all eroticism in fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shoes of the Master | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...story is a frantic little fantasy about a collection of ne'er-do-wells who lead trampish lives in the shrubbery of Manhattan's Central Park; and particularly about their captain (Jolson) who knows the Mayor (Frank Morgan). Jolson finds a purse belonging to the Mayor's girl (Madge Evans), finds the girl herself when she has a stroke of amnesia, and restores her to her friend after falling in love with her himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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