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...bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich Fey, the boss of the St. Mary restoration job, had painted and sold to German dealers and collectors "approximately 600" clever fakes of everything from Rembrandts to Utrillos...
Playhouse on Broadway (Sun. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Marlene Dietrich in The Letter...
...Botch-a-Me, she adopts the tone of an earthy Italian mama, but her smile sings through as she gets the kiss she asks for. In Too Old to Cut the Mustard, a bit of hillbilly horseplay, she changes pace completely and sings raucous country alto to Marlene Dietrich's improbable baritone...
...Rosemary Clooney, the duet with Dietrich was something of a dream come true: "Marlene is everything I'd like to be," she says. But she is a far cry from glamorous Grandma Dietrich. Instead of heavy-lidded Weltschmerz, Kentucky's bright-eyed Rosemary has been peddling homespun charm since she was three. She began with Home on the Range, worked up to a radio series while still in high school. A feature spot with Tony Pastor's band led to a contract with Columbia Records (where among her other chores she did children's songs). Last...
Onstage, Songstress Clooney's gestures are deft, her manner friendly. Her working costume is never sexy or slinky, always demure white, usually with a fitted bodice and flaring ballerina skirt. No one knows better than Rosemary that she will never be another Dietrich. "Yeah," she admits, "I guess it's a compliment to be called the wholesome type. With what I've got to work with, as a femme fatale I'm dead...