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...Started with a Kiss (M-G-M). "Any marriage is wrong when you take the sex out of it," complains newlywed Air Force Sergeant Glenn Ford, who has just arrived from two sexless years in Iceland. "Do you think you're smarter than Freud?" he asks Showgirl Debbie Reynolds, who thinks she is - almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...wonder of finance, who ran off to Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro, and Naoma Wallman, 25, blondish showgirl: their first child, a son; in Rio de Janeiro. Name: Clint Randolph. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie itself is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...turn-of-the-century London waxworks, Redhead casts Gwen as Essie Whimple, a mouse-humble cockney-accented taxidermist of crime sensations. When the wax cools on her tableau of a purple-scarf murder before the clues do, and the strangler begins stalking her, poor Essie hides out as a showgirl with a neighboring theatrical troupe. For Essie, a spinster of 29, whose lips have never touched liquor, cigarettes or men, the greatest thrill is to be close to the show's American strong man (Richard Kiley). The problem: who will get whose man first-Scotland Yard or Essie Whimple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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