Cinema: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold Cream

Caprice. A skier in white schusses down a slope. In his tracks comes a skier in black, firing a rifle en route. A shot hits its mark, the man in white bites the snow, and the film is off on another chapter in the further adventures of Doris Day, girl woman.

In Caprice, Doris plays a cosmetics consultant whose specialty is industrial espionage—"A spy," she claims, "who came in from the cold cream." As millions of moviegoers now know, when Doris starts crinkling her freckles and batting her luxurious spurious eyelashes, a male star...

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