Word: cherie
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...jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that Colossal is being ruined by 1) its ace director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart, dog-loving producer, driven to drink by his passion for Cheri; 4) Nassau (C. Henry Gordon), a promoter who tries to bankrupt...
...signed "Willy." He collaborated with Colette on the famed Claudine series. Colette has written nearly 40 books. Though she did not invent the Modern French Woman in fiction, she is credited with supplying "the organs, the accuracies, the mind and the heart." Other translated novels: Mitsou (TIME, July 7), Cheri, Claudine at School...
...ablest clowns in the cinema she is forced to be sentimental. A skillful pantomimic, she has to talk continually, even sing. Unalterably Irish-American she wears peasant clothes and expresses herself in a language consisting of U. S. baby-talk combined with the foreign word cheri. A French soldier who has gone blind is the dramatic obstruction in her affair with Stagg. Best shot: Marion Davies entertaining a base camp with imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Gloria Swanson, Sarah Bernhardt...
Good wines come from Burgundy and so does Mme. Gabrielle Colette. Colette, who acted Léa in the 1925 dramatization of Cheri, is the onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...