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...Gwen Verdon plays the sexy siren, Lola, and now that she appears close up, it's easy to understand why she looked so much better from a distance in the musical. To the movie-viewer, Miss Verdon's lines are plain enough except for the aging ones, which remain well hidden until the last. And when she moves about, as she does so well, her facial makeup has a tendency to shift, giving her face an appearance not unlike that of lumpy oatmeal...
...backed financially and morally by Second Husband Humphrey Verdon Roe (a wealthy airplane manufacturer), Marie Stopes founded the world's first birth-control clinic in London. At its opening, crowds yelled that she was immoral, threw brickbats. But London's women made the clinic a success. Marie Stopes founded others up and down Britain. Gradually the stone throwing and vilification stopped (though the London Times for a while slapped a ban on ads for her books and clinics, kept it in effect until 1953). Thus far, Married Love has sold more than 1,000,000 copies...
Damn Yankees. Gwen Verdon, as the nimblest dancer in this or other worlds, and Ray Walston, as a button-down Beelzebub, in a bouncy remake of the Broadway musical...
Damn Yankees. Gwen Verdon, as the nimblest dancer in this or other worlds, and Ray Walston, as a button-down Beelzebub, in a bouncy remake of the Broadway musical; with Tab Hunter (TIME, Sept...
...trouble by mooning about the wife he had to leave behind when he took on his new incarnation. "Wives," declares Walston woundedly, "cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...