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Hedy Lamarrs and Ann Sheridans may come and go, but Dietrich will star forever. Her latest, "The Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

Miss Robson said that "We Are Not Alone" was the only movie she had ever been in where there was enough continuity to permit acting. "In most you can get away with two expressions as Dietrich does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flora Robson Dislikes Murdering, But Finds Greatest Pleasure in Acting Tragic Parts | 11/7/1940 | See Source »

...performers have appeared in the show to date. Valuable by-product of their visits is a sound-effects drum which all of them have signed. Estimated worth of the drum today is $9,000, and the sound-effects man hates to hit it for fear of ruining autographs. Marlene Dietrich has been almost obliterated from the effects of hurricanes and earthquakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Show | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...formula of saddling a horse opera with a fresh script, riding hell-for-leather with a good cast. When elegant Kay Francis is discovered perched on a corral, counting steers and fluttering her false eyelashes at buckish Randolph Scott, the parallel with the picture which revivified Marlene Dietrich with a draft of Western air is unmistakable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...itself." Soon deluged with telephone calls was KHJ, most of them from citizens full of praise for Squelcher Weiss. Then Berlin was heard from. D. N. B., official German newsagency, had denounced Weiss's shut down as "unprecedented and brazen." Hit ler's Press Chief Dr. Otto Dietrich coldly notified MBS that until the episode was satisfactorily explained the Reich would permit no broadcasts from Germany and German-controlled areas over the whole Mutual network with which the Don Lee chain is affiliated. Although MBS frantically pointed out to Berlin that all of its network (140 stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Slicker Squelcher | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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