Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flounced off the set of Can-Can in Hollywood one day last week, Actress Shirley MacLaine began running over her lines. "How the hell are you, Khrush? I'm goddammed glad you're here. Welcome to our country; and welcome to 20th Century-Fox, and I hope you enjoy seeing how Hollywood makes a musical. We're going to shoot the can-can number without pants." Like most of Hollywood, which was like most of the U.S., Shirley MacLaine had the Khrushchev visit on her mind (she is an official movie hostess) and, since it was inevitable...
...gossip popped corks and bubbled through Paris. Long-legged Actress-Model Suzy Parker, 26, was seeing a lot of Wall Street's impeccable, rich, yo-year-old Widower Paul V. Shields (brother and investment banking partner of Champion...
Lola has behind her countless different jobs-radio actress, stenographer, switchboard operator, photographic model. She says that she never really wanted to pay the price that Hollywood demands for stardom ("You become everybody's personal property''), but by 1946 she was there, like a thousand others, sitting around on sets, earning little more than the right to join the extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York...
Blue Angel. The 30-year-old Dietrich dazzler updated, with sultry Swedish Actress May Britt as the Berlin Lorelei whose siren song lures West Germany's Box-Office Idol Curt Jurgens onto the rocks...
...Lola Lola, the hardhearted Lorelei whose siren song lures a respectable, middle-aging botany teacher (Curt Jurgens) into degradation, Swedish Actress Britt makes a stunning physical impression. She slithers among the cabaret chairs like an insolent incarnation of sin, and despite her tone-deafness, delivers the familiar Falling in Love Again and a new song, Lola Lola ("lives for love"), with throaty seductiveness. But she is never called upon to display even a modest range of emotion, never conveys anything of the sense of mystery and veiled secret that underlay Marlene's tough tart...