Ruth Roman: Love Has Many Faces (1965)

Source:The Film Experience- left to right: Ruth Roman & Virginia Grey.

"I’d be hard pressed to relay what actually happens. There’s are a couple of American cougars played by the fabulous Ruth Roman and Virginia Grey stalking the beach looking out for hot young studs to ensnare. Unfortunately, all the resort has to offer is the skimpily clad middle aged lothario Hugh O’Brian pimping his wares and trying his best to steal Kit from her former gigolo husband. Quite why these gorgeous rich women are travelling all the way to Acapulco to hook men with all the allure of a Missouri car salesman is not explained." 

From The Film Experience

Before I really get started here, I must really confess and say that I've had a long distance crush on Ruth Roman for literally ten years now, July or August of 2013. I got FIOS-TV at home and my TV package expanded and METV became part of that package and I caught here on an episode of The Untouchables, from I think the 3rd season. A year or so later, I see her in the film Love Has Many Faces on TCM. 

I've always thought Ruth Roman was beautiful, very cute, adorable, really, with those eyes, cheeks, facial expressions, sexy voice, shape, she reminds me a taller, sexier, Elizabeth Taylor, but not quite as adorable, but almost no one is. 

Similar to Kim Novak, Ruth has always been unde rrated and under appreciated, maybe that's because she's a very cute, beautiful, brunette, instead of a beautiful, overly adorable, immature blond. And when you are from the World War II Generation, especially in Hollywood, it's Hollywood blonds that get the most attention, not the brunettes, even when the brunettes are built like Ruth Roman.

As far as Love Has Many Faces and this scene: Margo (played by Ruth Roman) and Irene (played Virginia Grey) are a couple of middle aged, perhaps early middle aged, single, wealthy, boy hungry women, who I guess are vacationing in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. They look like easy targets for Hank (played by Hugh O'Brien) and Chuck. (Played by Ron Husmann) 

Margo might be love starved and perhaps even lonely, but she's not stupid or immature or naive. When they meet, Hank calls her and Irene: "Vagabundos en la ciudad en Mexicana(feminine)" which translates into tramps on the town in Mexican Spanish. But he says it like it's a complement. 

Margo responds by saying: "Irene, he just called us tramps" 

with Hank saying: "I thought you don't speak Spanish" 

with Margo replying: "Why, because I said so?"

Hank and Chuck are career gigolos who are down in Acapulco looking for wealthy, single women, who are lonely and tare here to make them feel good and give them a good time. There's another line where Irene asks Margo: "What do you think they're saying about us?" with Margo replaying: "Unfortunately, something like, take your pick." 

This is a really good film for Ruth Roman because she's on the beach and you see how beautiful, cute, and sexy she is, but the role she's playing as an independent woman, who loves her freedom and is not going to let anybody, especially a 40 year old gigolo, who lives in shack and has a 30 gigolo as his roommate, take that away from her. And she doesn't an excellent job.