Stanley Hall (dancer) "Carmen". The movie was never completed, but Hall stayed on to dance in many well-known Hollywood musical films, including the “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” segment from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". Hall enjoyed a successful career as a dancer in Hollywood movies, Broadway musicals, television specials, and live touring shows with Betty Grable, Jane Russell, and Liberace. While in California, Hall broadened his dance skills with studies in modern dance with Bella Lewitsky and jazz with Jack Cole. He also worked with a small ballet company in Long Beach, CA, where he began directing and choreographing. Hall’s friends, the ballerina
Chic seems". By contrast, in Anita Loos' novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1925), the diarist Lorelei Lee recorded that "the French use the word 'sheik' for everything, while we only seem to use if for gentlemen when they seem to resemble Rudolf Valentino" (a pun derived from the latter's being the star of the 1921 silent film, "The Sheik"). The Oxford Dictionary gives the comparative and superlative forms of "chic" as "chicer" and "chicest". These are wholly English words: the French equivalents would be "plus chic" and "le/la plus chic". "Super-chic" is sometimes used: "super-chic Incline bucket in mouth-blown, moulded glass". An