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...stylist is Adrian, and since broad-shouldered, boy-hipped Joan Crawford is one of Adrian's favorite models, Susan and God is no mean fashion event. Feminine movie goers and scouts who remembered such nationwide Adrian clicks as the puffed sleeves Crawford wore in Letty Lynton, Garbo's Eugenie hat in Romance and jaunty pillbox in Mat a Hari, ogled Miss Crawford in a quilted bed jacket and chiffon wimple, a severe black frock with white loops sprouting from one shoulder, a striking evening gown suspended from a white cord (see cut), 13 other Adrian changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Died. George Fitzmaurice, 55, Paris-born pioneer cinema director and writer; of streptococcic infection: in Los Angeles. He first made his name directing Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, later directed such stars as Greta Garbo (Mata Hari), Gary Cooper (Peter Ibbetson), Ronald Colman (Raffles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Miss Raskova "as their lives are more precious than any records." She then settled down, but one of her sister airwomen on that record flight flew Soviet military planes against the Finns recently. Raskova, according to Commerce Chamberman Williams, reminds one of the wooden Soviet female executive played by Garbo in Ninotchka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Marrying Djugashvili? | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...York City, Transcontinental & Western Air's genial Eastern manager, Stick Randall, went to an auction sale (proceeds to Finland), bought: a Dorothy Lamour sarong (used), $25; Paulette Goddard nightgown (used), $30; three of Jimmy Cagney's neckties (brand-new), $22.* Other Finland fans bought Greta Garbo's evening gloves, Josef Lhevinne's autographed concert handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: For Finland | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...again. With its usual feeble attempt at humor, it has bungled itself into the national limelight by a ruthless and unwarranted attack on one of the finer things in life, Ann Sheridan. Of course, anyone with any discrimination knows that Miss Sheridan is hotter than West, greater than Garbo, and the oomphiest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN RE OOMPH ET AL | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

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