Word: birthmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medicine has largely debunked the cruder old wives' tales, e.g., that a strawberry birthmark follows a strawberry-eating jag by the mother-to-be. But it is no old wives' tale that German measles in the first three months of pregnancy can be crippling or fatal to the fetus (TIME, Dec. 31). Now more such evidence is piling up. In London's Lancet, Psychologist Denis H. Stott of Bristol University reports a study of 102 mentally retarded children, makes a strong case that prenatal influences (as opposed to injury during birth or later illness) are to blame...
...Prince's nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel. By a stroke of good luck the demure Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester, who is in reality a secret agent. Dressed up in Giacomo the Jester's outfit, Danny Kaye goes to the castle to get the key to the secret passageway...
...business. Apton cites case after case (but without mentioning names), e.g., actresses who were able to go on playing youthful roles after face lifting, while others of the same age, with unlifted faces, got only middle-aged parts or none at all; a pediatrician who had a port-wine birthmark removed from his face because it scared the kiddies; a rabbit-eared radio announcer who had to have an operation to get a job on television...
Ladd plays a tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...
...crew is wonderful. It has to be the backbone of the play, and this one, although physically unlike the original cast, is of the same high quality. There is also one pretty girl in the cast, and she has a birthmark. But you don't get to see it, and neither does Pulver...