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Huge kudu eyes, wide, hungry mouth, bullfrog-in-a-barrel baritone: Hildegard Knef came sauntering out of rubbled Berlin to become an international star -for the U.S. a sexy fraulein figure renamed Hildegarde Neff, for Germany a second and more controversial Dietrich. And here it is: the expectable show biz autobiography. But not the predictable boredom: The Gift Horse sold 300,000 copies in Germany. Like Puccini's Tosca, Hilde Knef has lived for art and love, but like Brecht's Ginny Jenny she now casts a cold eye on her follies and grandeur. Don't expect...
...avoids political and social issues like the plague: in comparison, Billy Graham sounds like Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Humbard simply will not speak on racism. As for the Viet Nam War, he just shakes his head. "I dunno. Before I'd say anything about Viet Nam I'd have to hear the Lord speak twicet." That kind of political laissez-faire endears him to many flag-waving right-wingers, who read into it more than Humbard really intends to say. Indeed, in the adult Sunday-school class at the cathedral last week, Humbard's associate Wayne Jones deplored...
...possible-within two months, farewells from both Rolls-Royce and the stud Marlene Dietrich called "the Mercedes-Benz of men"? Or was the master phraser of pop singing just teasing with another eloquent pause? He had been up and down before, but never out. Born in Hoboken, N.J., the son of an Italian immigrant fireman. Winning on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Singing with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Becoming "the Voice," playing the Paramount and the Hit Parade to the tune of $1,000,000 a year...
...they didn't go). "How do you treat a star?" asks Alex. "Like a star." That is a little difficult at the Tonys where everyone is a star. He can provide them all with limousines but not private dressing rooms and dressers. (In the 1968 show, Marlene Dietrich was spotted massaging Pearl Bailey's perennially aching feet.) Agents can also be a nuisance, carping just before air time that their client's intro is 37 words of praise shorter than someone else...
...suffered from the end of this era; none of the great women stars survived with their strength intact. Mae West's career was finished, and Garbo-after giving in to Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka -was then reduced to "sex farce" in Two-Faced Woman, and left the screen forever. Dietrich went to comedy somewhat more successfully, and revived her career with Destry Rides Again in 1939. But all the comedy was at the expense of her former screen image-and although funny, it somehow smells of self-exploitation. Katherine Hepburn made her first comedy, Bringing Up Baby...