Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth Taylor is a great beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...
...course, [the press treatment] was my fault, too. You try to keep things quiet. The thing is that a movie star is a ridiculous commercial product, and the public tells you what to do. One women's group wrote me that I had once been a perfect example for mothers and now I was a horrible example. They saw me in Joan of Arc and thought I was a saint. I'm not. I'm just a human being...
After searching high & low these many years, Illustrator George Petty at last found in Screen Star Joan Caulfield (height, 5 ft. 5 in.; weight, 119 lbs.; waist, 25 in.; bust, 35½ in.) the perfect model for his once-famed Petty Girl, promptly set to work sketching her. By an astounding coincidence, Joan was hard at work on a new movie-The Petty Girl...
...Litter Perfect. In South Houston, Tex., a stray yellow alley cat wandered into the local post office building and gave birth to tour kittens under the Special Delivery table...
...Girl from Jones Beach (Warner) turns out to be blonde Virginia Mayo, a high-minded schoolteacher with a photogenic figure and a low I.Q. in matters of romance. To Ronald Reagan, a New York commercial artist, she looks like the perfect model for the perfect cover girl. To Eddie Bracken, a down-at-heels promoter, she looks like the promise of a fat commission if she can be teamed with Reagan in a television act. The problem: to persuade highbrow Miss Mayo to lend herself to such a lowbrow enterprise...