Word: walliser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hollywood or Bust (Hal Wallis; Paramount) might be called a redundant pun. Like most Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis productions, the movie is a package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot...
The Family Tree. Despite this setback the debutante did well (three corsages to wear on Easter Sunday), and she married "strong, assured, sophisticated" Lieut, (j.g.) Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., with whom she lived the life of a Navy wife from Peking to Pensacola. Alas, came the terrible time when Lieut...
As the gauzy, chatty narrative tells of the months during which Mrs. Simpson became the great and good friend of the Prince of Wales, the reader's heart will go out to Mr. Simpson. From the moment of Wallis' fateful speech to the Prince at the Simpsons'...
Despite the story's carefully hidden sordid blotches-only a romantic musical 100 years hence will entirely erase them-and despite the determinedly sentimental tone ("any woman who has been loved as I have been loved"), a touch of dignity, be it of Windsor or of Baltimore, still shines...
* The family always ran together Bessie (for an aunt) and Wallis (for her father). She eventually made it just Wallis, a name she always preferred because "so many cows are called Bessie."