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Word: vixenish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bette Davis asked for it. Almost invariably cast as an indoor girl who prefers to do her suffering mentally, she pestered the Brothers Warner to co-star her with Rough-On-Rats Cagney. Their first get-together since 1934 (Jimmy the Gent) turns the vixenish lady into a foxy hoyden. Mr. Cagney ungently plucks cactus spines from the seat of her pants after she makes an awkward leap from their stalled plane, deliberately smacks her skull with his to drive home a point, slingshots her from the rear while she signals for help with a mirror, roils her finery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1941 | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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