Word: dietrichs
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...cherished pictures to which people flock almost everytime it is resurrected, and its plot is well known. Hard as it is to explain what makes any picture merely good, it is quite impossible to define the elements that make a picture worth seeing may times. It's not Marlene Dietrich alone. She's brassy and long legged, she's beautiful and gravel voiced: she's wonderful. But that can't be enough for motion picture immortality...
...baddie into a pretty convincing picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming and gifted ingenue, moves through her scenes winningly. Hildegarde Neff is heavy, magnetic and subtle as the troubled sister-in-law. She has a Dietrich-like voice and a Garbo-like capacity to make silence intensely interesting...
This is the most fabulous place in the world," sighed Marlene Dietrich. " Any where else-pouf, I would not .go. But this is different. Las Vegas is the only gay place left in the world. This is how Paris used to be before the war." Marlene, 48, was preparing for a three-week engagement at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas next month, for the record-breaking stipend of $90,000. Her opening night has been set for Dec. 15, an arrangement that thriftily divides her paydays into two tax years...
Dean Wooldridge, who came from Bell Laboratories. On Thornton's advice, Hughes had decided to give up the crowded field of airframe building and concentrate on electronics, reportedly over the strenuous objection of Noah Dietrich, his chief industrial adviser. Ramo and Wooldridge, because of their standing among electronic engineers-and with unlimited funds provided by Hughes-were able to round up many of the top experts in the country. Hughes also persuaded General Harold George, wartime boss of the Air Transport Command, to join the company, and he became vice president and general manager. Sales, which had been about...
...Howard Hughes, who had provided General George and the others a free hand, soon began to move in on the company's operations. As usual, he could seldom be found when needed, delayed making decisions, kept papers requiring action in his pocket. Dietrich also began putting in his oar. When the top men threatened to quit, Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott visited the plant, reportedly hinted that unless Hughes cleared up the trouble, it might be a good idea for him to sell out to somebody else...