Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...
...fact remains that Hollywood's taste buds, like those of any industry, are necessarily conditioned by earnings & profits. For these, the cinemoguls insist, glamor in the well-known shapes of male & female stars is basic, fundamental, utterly essential and sometimes colossal...
When Hollywood spins this yarn, it frequently abandons all pretense at reality. The stylized characters may lack conviction, but they have the gossamer look of dreamlike figures in a ballet. The British, trying in this movie to mix glamor with small, telling touches of reality, have missed out on both. The failure is particularly glaring because a number of highly skilled hands were involved in it. The plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film...
...Glamor, however, is not a constant feature of the Key's work. Most of the jobs are routine, and are rewarded at best by the gratitude of the visitors or a free pass to the game. It is a tribute to the enthusiasm of the candidates and members this year that the Key has done the work so well...
...Transit Commission, a job at $25,000 yearly as czar of labor relations in Manhattan's garment industry. He was still faultlessly tailored, urbane and worldly. In 1942, after his marriage to Betty had also ended in divorce, Jimmy, 60, went back to the Roman Catholic Church. "The glamor of other days I have found to be tinsel," he later said...