Word: vamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jerk." He sets the tone of the leading character in the first show as he barely holds to his job and desperately tries to earn some commissions ("Even my friends are making more money than I am, and they're unemployed"). The gags are broad (Cummings to a vamp: "Be careful, I'm already committed." Vamp to Cummings: "You may have to be, when I'm through with you"), and so is all the acting, but there are plenty of simple-minded laughs. The Bob Hope Show (weekdays, 9:30 a.m., NBC) is designed strictly for housewives...
...massive array of promising eyes, perfect legs and pneumatic bosoms, he finds nothing that can quite match his favorites of yesteryear-Theda Bara, the archetype of the Vamp; Gloria Swanson, with her passion for spangles and feathers; Clara Bow, the original "It" girl; Greta Garbo, the incomparable Swede, still a legend after a decade off the screen; Jean Harlow, whose platinum-blonde petulance and provocative lisp still agitate nostalgic memories in thousands of aging males...
...various long-suffering grown-ups just go through stock-company motions, and that great pioneer in brathood, Willie's kid sister Jane, today seems just another brat. Ann Crowley, who is a pleasant enough ingenue as Lola, seldom becomes Tarkington's baby-talking, beau-snatching vamp, at once a young man's dream and everyone else's nightmare...
Polish-born Pola Negri, 51, heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, who first came to the U.S. in 1922, appeared last week in a Los Angeles federal court to take her final oath as a U.S. citizen. She was now busy, she said, writing her autobiography to be called, As Much As I Dare...
Silent Movie Vamp Gloria Swanson, 51, making a Hollywood comeback in Paramount's forthcoming Sunset Boulevard, revealed that she is also having a go at the literary life. Still at work on a book about "glamour over 40" for Prentice-Hall, she has agreed to write her autobiography for Doubleday...