I was in grade 10 when I saw the movie. 'Lover Come Back' was one of a series of romantic comedies starring Rock and Doris -- Obviously, we don't need last names.
It was 1961 and Doris was 37, Rock 36. Both absolutely gorgeous. She looks as if she were in her early thirties, but that's probably because she insisted in all her movies that the camera be smeared lightly with Vaseline to hide her wrinkles. Did you know that? Brilliant. What a body. Stunning. The hair? Not so much, it was blonde/white and sprayed to death into a concrete helmut. Rock died at 59 of AIDS, but good old Doris is still hanging in there at 91.
Speaking of movies, watched a classic last evening, 'Separate Tables', starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Rod Taylor and Wendy Hiller. What a cast and what a great movie, although very dated today, given the sympathy the David Niven character is accorded for sexually assaulting a teenaged girl in a movie theater.
Rita was 40 when she made the film and was considered "over-the-hill". G-d, what does that make me?! Way over, down the road and out of sight. Nevermind, Rita was still absolutely gorgeous.
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