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Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lynne Overman; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...This county wouldn't hang Lucrezia Borgia," a reporter (Lynne Overman) informs Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers), redheaded, gum-chewing, wisecracking dancer, whose husband has just shot her lover and pinned the murder on her. Convinced that she can't have a career and be innocent, too, Roxie agrees to stand trial and let the newspapers "put her right up there" with Peaches Browning, Queen Marie, Ruth Snyder and Red Grange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Although Roxie Hart makes a hilarious burlesque of Chicago's Keep-Cool-With-Coolidge, Keep-Cockeyed-With-Capone era, it is often too overdone for superior farce. Mouthpiece Menjou and Newsman Overman make mincemeat of their fat roles; America's own Ginger Rogers is attractive but unbelievable in hers. The star plays second fiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...What America needs today is a good 5? war song. The nation is literally crying for a good, peppy marching song, something with plenty of zip, ginger and fire. Something like Over There, Keep the Home Fires Burning, Pack Up Your Troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of the Times | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Arthur Murray's five: Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Ann Miller and Mrs. Murray, "who is not only a superb dancer but has all the additional qualities that would make a man happy in retirement." Pope Pius XII told 3,000 newly weds to trust each other, emphasized that if the husband was a doctor, a lawyer, state official or military officer with professional secrets "the wife must show she trusts her husband and make no attempt to learn the secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Beauty, Health, Style | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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