Word: leni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madame Bovary (Terra). Last spring Paris-Soir aired the rumor that Adolf Hitler's middleaged, platonic fancy had turned from red-haired 29-year-old cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl (who in three years as his favorite had risen to ranking Nazi film authority) to 38-year-old Pola Negri (born Appollonia Chalupec), whose round poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took...
...prove that she and Adolf Hitler are still on good terms, Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl appeared in Paris and handed out autographed snapshots taken the day before at a party on her estate near Berlin, showing herself in the company of the Führer and Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, reported by Paris-Soir last month to have publicly denounced her as a Jew (TIME, June...
...leaving this place," snapped Dr. Goebbels, "because there is a person here who is not Aryan. I have with me documents showing that Leni Riefenstahl had non-Aryan grandparents...
...hrer's supposed romance with the old-time cinemactress, Pola Negri (TIME, April 26). This week Paris-Soir was at it again, this time with a still more lurid story of what has become of Pola Negri's reputed predecessor, muscular, mountain-climbing Leni Riefenstahl. During the Olympic Games last year Cinemactress Riefenstahl had complete charge of all official newsreel pictures, was expected to make at least one full-length film. 20 short features out of them. These films have not yet been released...
Minister Frick at once hustled Actress Riefenstahl from the room. When she returned to her apartment she found a detail of Brownshirts already at the door. All her furniture was already piled in a waiting truck. Obviously the whole thing had been staged. Half prostrate, Leni Riefenstahl was hustled to a quiet nearby hotel. What has since become of her, Paris-Soir did not venture...