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...Blue Angel. The 29-year-old Dietrich dazzler updated, with sultry Swedish Actress May Britt as the Berlin Lorelei whose siren song lures West Germany's Box Office Idol Curt Jurgens onto the rocks. Dietrich did it better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Blue Angel. The 30-year-old Dietrich dazzler updated, with sultry Swedish Actress May Britt as the Berlin Lorelei whose siren song lures West Germany's Box-Office Idol Curt Jurgens onto the rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Lola Lola, the hardhearted Lorelei whose siren song lures a respectable, middle-aging botany teacher (Curt Jurgens) into degradation, Swedish Actress Britt makes a stunning physical impression. She slithers among the cabaret chairs like an insolent incarnation of sin, and despite her tone-deafness, delivers the familiar Falling in Love Again and a new song, Lola Lola ("lives for love"), with throaty seductiveness. But she is never called upon to display even a modest range of emotion, never conveys anything of the sense of mystery and veiled secret that underlay Marlene's tough tart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...author clearly felt that he and an entire nation had been scorned-his unnamed heroine retreats to the rough-hewn comradeship of the stage. After a triumphant performance in a theater crowded with her enemies, she collapses on her sofa in melodramatic tears, unable to solve the curt, inexorable questions that Djilas himself could not really answer: "Why? How? Whither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Grieve, Therefore I Am | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Hollywood the U.S.'s No. 1 rocketeer, German-born Wernher von Braun, cast a scientific eye on Cinemactor Curt Jurgens, showed German-born JÜrgens a replica of the nose cone of the Army's Pioneer III lunar probe, which soared more than a third of the way to the moon last December. Then the pair chatted amiably about JÜrgens' role as Von Braun in a film biography to be titled / Aim at the Stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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