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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marlene ("Legs") Dietrich pooh-poohed a popular myth: "The average man," she confided, "is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs." But she conceded that beautiful legs "help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...occasion was an Air Force Association reunion at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. For most of the evening the TV camera dwelt fondly on a long succession of performing celebrities: Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Lena Home. But as Cinemactors Margaret O'Brien and Walter Pidgeon were announced, the camera gazed tactfully elsewhere, in deference to the stars' M-G-M contracts, which forbid their appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Vanishing Stripteaser | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Sergeant Bing's home town (street fighting, the establishment of a civilian administration, the recapture of the town by the Nazis and the hanging of the American-appointed mayor); through the occupation of Kremmen (pop. 200,000), with Loomis and Willoughby falling into the clutches of a Marlene Dietrich-like vampire in whose arms they find bliss never known at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Believers & Infidels | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Dividends. In Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Hudson Robinson cut open a fish, found the earring she had lost two years ago at a fish hatchery. In Lancaster, Pa., Fisherman Cyrus Dietrich pulled in his line, found a five-dollar bill on his hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere candy-box-top prettiness. Even her intensively publicized legs (immortalized in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with Gable's ears and Barrymore's profile) cannot compare in symmetry to Dietrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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