Word: vixenish
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...movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent tutor. The triumphs were fewer after their divorce in 1960, though she still won plaudits as the vixenish divorcee in Hollywood's Ship of Fools two years ago and as the consumptive Anna last year in Broadway's Ivanov...
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. Reproductions of vintage aircraft soar blithely skyward bearing Terry-Thomas, Alberto Sordi and Gert Frobe to the high points of a flaphappy comedy about a London-Paris air race in 1910-while vixenish Sarah Miles waits in the winners' circle to choose between Stuart Whitman and James...
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. Reproductions of vintage aircraft soar blithely skyward bearing Terry-Thomas, Alberto Sordi and Gert Frobe to the high points of a fiaphappy comedy about a London-Paris air race in 1910-while vixenish Sarah Miles waits in the winners' circle to choose between Stuart Whitman and James...
Diary of a Chambermaid. Newly arrived from Paris to work in a stolid provincial home, the vixenish maid (Jeanne Moreau) quietly appraises her surroundings. Her employers inhabit a cheerless chateau stuffed with ferns, overprotected objets d'art, and family skeletons. She duly notes that the place is full of opportunities for a clever girl. "Do you mind if I touch your calf?" asks the master, feeling amorous. But Madame is watchful, so the maid bestows her favors instead on Madame's father, a haughty old fetishist who asks only that she hike up her skirts and model...
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...