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Basil Rathbone will play at being a Harvard professor tonight when he, Marlene Dietrich, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will send off United Nations Week in New England Mutual Hall...
...Highway in the Sky (20th Century-Fox) puts James Stewart into the familiar role of a lovably naive eccentric who wages a one-man rebellion against bull-headed officialdom. Director Henry Koster freshens this foolproof formula with suspense and humor, casts Marlene Dietrich in no less foolproof a role as a glamorous movie queen, and surrounds his stars with a talented cast recruited in Britain, where the movie was filmed from a novel by Nevil Shute...
...experiment speeded up, dispatches him to Labrador to look into the crash of one of the new planes. Widower Stewart says goodbye to his gravely precocious daughter (Janette Scott) and shambles aboard a Reindeer. The trip starts brightly enough; a pretty stewardess (Glynis Johns) pampers him, and Movie Star Dietrich dozes just across the aisle. Then he learns that the plane is just past its crucial point of strain...
That indifference is part of her charm. Marlene Dietrich, who, at 48, is still one of the greatest glamor girls of them all, has set down three prerequisites for glamor. The first is that a star must not try too hard to woo the public, for the public reacts in the same way as a man who is chased too hard; indifferent Ava fulfills that condition. Prerequisite No. 2: a glamor girl must enjoy sex, rather than just pretend to enjoy it on the screen; Hollywood's enthusiastic consensus is that Ava Gardner fulfills that condition, too. Prerequisite...
Movie actresses have always given Portraitist Brockhurst a bad time. Merle Oberon was chronically late to sittings. Marlene Dietrich couldn't sit still, got bored after two or three sittings, so her portrait was left unfinished. The easiest person Brockhurst can imagine painting is John L. Lewis. "With his heavy dark eyebrows and face like a Pekingese, I could do him in three hours." But, so far, Lewis hasn't applied for a sitting...