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...When Master Cooper recently switched from child parts to juveniles, he sternly put away childish things. Among them: a red-upholstered super-flivver with nine horns, seven headlights, a 22-push-button dashboard. Cinemactor Cooper now travels in a sedate maroon coupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...baby brown eyes a weird, predaceous glitter. Ouida Bergère (nee Ida Berger) is chubby, red-headed Mrs. Basil Rathbone. Once something of a scriptress, for seven years she was head of Paramount's scenario department. Now, with her tall, dark, talented, professionally sinister, personally amiable cinemactor husband she inhabits an overstuffed stronghold in Hollywood's fashionable Bel Air quarter. There she contrives her parties. They are said to begin as a fulmination of her blood, a bounding along the veins, which eventually detonates in something pyrotechnic, exotic, ingenious and rare. At their most grandiose, they combine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Folies-Bergere | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. British Cinemactor Herbert Marshall, 49; by British Cinemactress Edna Best, 39; at Las Vegas, Nev., under the auspices of Judge Roger Foley, who five minutes later married her to Hollywood Agent Nat Wolff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Others will be willing to take James Cagney's word for it. Asked during a lull in shooting the picture what was going to happen next, Cinemactor Cagney eyed his questioner, demanded incredulously: "Are you really that interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford. But all the while Robert Montgomery wanted to be a gangster. Much against its better judgment his studio at last let him play a sneering homicidal bellhop in Night Must Fall. Cinemactor Montgomery had a high old time murdering Dame May Whitty, and critics thought it was pretty good too. But the U. S. cinemasses, who can spot a phony on the screen as quickly as on the street, stayed away from the box office. They thought Robert Montgomery was not the type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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