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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monsoon (The Film Group; United Artists) is a parched little melodrama set in a torrential downpour. An about-to-be-married couple (Diana Douglas and George Nadar) arrive at the village of Ginjim in southern India to visit the girl's family. In Ginjim, the barometer is low and human passions are high. The family's younger daughter (Ursula Thiess), a child of nature who runs around in scanty outfits, takes the eye of her sister's fiancé. Before long they are cuddling in an abandoned temple, exchanging such lines as: "I will love you with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Road to Riches. For all this, Diane-who also calls herself Lady Diana Harrington-never lost her expensive glitter. She wore a simple dark blue suit, a diamond-studded bracelet and a diamond-studded clip. She exuded French perfume and trailed a "breath of spring" mink stole with the air of a duchess dragging a gunny sack. After scarcely more than one startled look, Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Liebler was moved to describe her as the "golden girl of café society." He grew more eloquent during the arraignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Golden Girl | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Meet Me at the Fair (Universal-International) spins a plot that is as insubstantial and as highly colored as cotton candy. It is a sentimental tale of a runaway orphan (Chet Allen), a singing medicine man (Dan Dailey) and a beautiful welfare worker (Diana Lynn). By the time the picture has run its course, the medicine man and welfare worker, who are about to be married, have adopted the orphan and his dog, and have also put to rout a pack of crooked politicians responsible for lamentable conditions at the orphanage. Spotting this confection at intervals are some pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...gifts going to the winner are: a bracelet from Diana Christine: a Parisian silk scarf from Elaine Claire; a blouse from the Town and Travel Shop: a copy of the Betty Crocker giant cook book from the Harvard Book Store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mulvihill, Capp to Judge Maid Final; Jewelry, Orchids, Nylons to Winner | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...twig, placed it in the crease of his green hat, bowed to Stehle and pronounced "Falconer, Heil." Stehle, in turn, bowed, accepted the twig and placed it under the band of his own hat. In two days of competition, with 18 stylish kills, the deadly hunting trio of Stehle, Diana and Mookie successfully defended the title in the international competition sponsored by the Order of German Falconers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Falconer, Heil | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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