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Married. Sigrid Gurie, 24, Brooklyn-born, Norwegian-bred cinemactress; and Laurence C. Spangard, 42, Hollywood physician ; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...smoothly functioning cast. No surprises are the easy ad-libbish styles of Stars Grant and Lombard, the enameled professional finish of oldtime Actor Charles Coburn as Alec's conventional father. Surprising to many cinemaddicts, however, will be the effectively venomous performance, as Alec's mercenary wife, of Cinemactress Kay Francis. Having worked out a long-term contract with Warner Bros, which kept her in the top money (over $5,000 a week) but buried her as the suffering woman in a string of B pictures, sleek Cinemactress Francis in her first free-lance job shows that she still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...private life Violinist Heifetz is the husband of queenly, retired Cinemactress Florence Vidor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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