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...career. It was 1946, and for postwar Americans she still evoked the simpler times when Andy Hardy was in love and the Land of Oz was rainbow hued. Meanwhile, Liza's father, a courtly, cultivated man whom she still idolizes, was busy creating such polished movie musicals as Ziegfeld Follies and Meet Me in St. Louis. Though sometimes frenetic, family life was full of laughter, flowers and music. It was also somehow unreal...
Died. Max Steiner, 83, longtime movie-score composer; in Hollywood. A Viennese prodigy, Steiner began songwriting and conducting while still a teenager. He migrated to the U.S. in 1914, wrote music and did arrangements for George White and Florenz Ziegfeld, then went to Hollywood in 1930. Of his more than 200 scores, three won Oscars-for The Informer (1935), Now Voyager (1942) and Since You Went Away...
...dimple-kneed darling of George White's Scandals and popularizer of the Black Bottom dance craze in the '20s; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. "Tiny" Pennington-she stood 4 ft. 11½ in. in heels and weighed just over 100 lbs.-started out in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, where White was her dancing partner in 1915. When White went on his own four years later, he took Tiny with him. She soon shimmied her way to $1,000-a-week stardom in films and on the stage. Her career faded after the flapper...
...skimmed milk is a thorough bore throughout, and the only part I really enjoyed was when I had a short nap. There is no fault to be found with the cast, but the play itself, the plot, the dreary scenery, the monotonous songs and the tinsely imitation of Ziegfeld's gorgeous costumes are not to be believed...
...comparison, Pretty Maids is truly comic relief - a kinky, funny, often on-target sat ire about libidinous teen-agers and their equally eager elders. Director Vadim constantly undercuts himself with the kind of sleazy eroticism (many shots of panties and nubile cleavage) that has made him a cinematic Flo Ziegfeld, but his decidedly black sense of humor has not been so finely honed since he made Les Liaisons Dangereuses ten years ago. The plot concerns a high school guidance counselor and football coach (nicely played by Rock Hudson) who relates to students in a decidedly intimate fashion. The film does...