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...some three dozen Westerns. It was not until John Ford picked him up in his superwestern Stagecoach (1939) that Wayne began to get out of the tumbleweed into the limelight. In Seven Sinners and The Spoilers he turned out to be one of the best tackling dummies Marlene Dietrich has ever found. The war has given Cinemactor Wayne an unexpected break. Since outdoor violence has become one of the world's most important occupations, any man who can portray it honestly on the screen has a likely future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Cheesecake Did It. Bathing beauties did it. Big, beautiful eyes and slim, wonderful legs did it. The supreme Empress of Cheesecake, the very Marlene Dietrich herself, last week was fittingly crowned by the Treasury as the champion bond seller of all. On three cross-country trips she upped the pulses and unsnapped the purses of thousands of U.S. males. At Cleveland's General Electric plant, when Worker Edward LaCuoco signed away 10% of his pay for the duration, Miss Dietrich rewarded him with a long cine-kiss (see cut). Mr. LaCuoco said it was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Cheesecake for Victory | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Nazi press had announced an all-out offensive on Moscow. On Oct. 9 Hitler sent his personal press stooge, Dr. Otto Dietrich, from the front to Berlin to announce to newspapermen that the very last remnants of the Red Army were "locked in two steel German pockets before Moscow and were undergoing swift, merciless annihilation." Dietrich wound up: "And on that, gentlemen, I stake my whole journalistic reputation." Nazi headlines shouted: DIETRICH: CAMPAIGN IN EAST DECIDED. Said the official Völkischer Beobachter: "The strategic decision has already been gained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Inheritors | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

This time it's strong John Wayne, who owns the gold mine, v. Randolph Scott, who doesn't but wants to, with slinky Marlene Dietrich in the background, always ready with a knife or a hard word. As Cherry Malotte, proprietor of Nome's Great Northern saloon, she is back in her Destry Rides Again role −a Bad Girl with a nugget heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borderline Stuff | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...were boyish and courteous but not quite aware enough of the necessity of romance; she fell off a horse and got a mild concussion; she spent several months in Bali and months more cruising Shanghai in disguise; she was one of few women who could count both Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among her friends; she told Kansas City that American women drink too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All in a Lifetime | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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