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...staggered out of a Los Angeles cinema where he had just beheld legsome Susan Hayward in Adam Had Four Sons (see p. 93), summoned all his superlatives, and announced the formation of a "Perfect Legs Institute of America," for which he (and a corps of press agents) demanded that Cinemactress Susan be drafted as president. Geewhizzed Artist St. Amand, who envisages a comprehensive "Academy of Feminine Perfection" as a sort of penultimate holding company of compelling female corporeality: "Not only does she have perfect legs; she has the poise and the intellect necessary to act as the leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Informed that the Harvard Lampoon's editors had called her the least desirable companion on a desert island, tiny, yellow-haired Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins shrugged the shoulders Illustrator Mc Clelland Barclay once called ideal, retorted: "The Lampoon editors are absolutely right. . . . However, in some quiet little restaurant I really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Quivered blonde, pants-wearing Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich: "When I started the custom of wearing men's trousers I never dreamed it would spread to such universal proportions. ... It actually makes me shudder when I see fat, squat women waddling around in slacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Filming a desert forced landing, newlywed Cinemactress Bette Davis hopped as she was supposed to out the plane door, landed as she was not supposed to, derry-down-dilly in a cactus bush. A doctor tweezered out 45 spines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Divorced. Dolores Del Rio, 35, veteran Mexican cinemactress; from Austin Cedric Gibbons, longtime art director for M. G. M.; after ten married years; in Los Angeles. Same day youthful Actor-Producer Orson Welles, 25, announced he would like to marry Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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