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Wake Up and Live (Twentieth Century-Fox) preserves for posterity, at one & the same time, the amiable radio feud between Columnist Walter Winchell and Bandleader Ben Bernie, and the uplift message of the best-seller by Dorothea Brande, from which it takes its title. That this almost impudently daring tour de force turns out to be wholly successful is due to shrewd manipulations by Producer Kenneth MacGowan and to a narrative by Screenwriters Curtis Kenyon. Jack Yellen and Harry Tugend which for sheer ingenuity is possibly the season's high...
...takes a job as secretary to Fred Gilbert (George Brent), carrot-nibbling editor of a health magazine. When she falls in love with Gilbert, Carol decides to humanize him. He proves the efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season. Sample, when Maizie is angling for a job on Body & Brain: "I can hear my mother say take good care of your body, Maizie, because...
Marriage Revealed. Seward Collins, 37, onetime editor & publisher of The Bookman, editor of the American Review; and Mrs. Dorothea Brande, his able associate editor, author of the best-selling Wake Up and Live!; last month; in Manhattan...
Married. Stanley Odium, 20, elder son of Manhattan Financier Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.); and Dorothea Beverly Klehr; in Harrison...
WAKE UP AND LIVE !-Dorothea Brande -Simon & Schuster ($1.75). How the author transformed herself in two years from a hack into a bestseller, with the twelve rules that guided her and can help YOU to do likewise. Not as bad as it sounds...