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Occasional laugh. But it is uneasy laughter. For the wicked old lady is seen debauching her young granddaughter (Joan Carroll), trying to debauch her teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...vehicle for the waxing dramatic talents of Ginger Rogers, The Primrose Path is something of a tumbril. This is too bad for serious Cinemactress Rogers and Director Gregory La Cava, who has produced such topnotchers as Stage Door and My Man Godfrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. Cinemactor Lew Ayres; by Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, previously married to Vaudeville Actor Edward Culpepper; after five years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Said she: "We really never were very happy." Ginger's mother testified: "He told me he didn't want her any more and that I could have her for keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Hawaii Artist O'Keeffe happily painted fishhooks, tropical flowers, lava bridges, waterfalls-but nary a pineapple. To Dole on her return she presented a vivid red canvas of crab's claw ginger, a lush green papaya tree (Dole's rival is papaya juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pineapple for Papaya | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Perennial butt of many a rebel British artist are the tidy, exclusive shows of the Royal Academy at London's Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never done-made an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All-in Show | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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