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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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 »

...hires the town's best criminal lawyer (Adolphe Menjou), a "simple, barefoot mouthpiece" who knows no law but does know juries, enjoys the run of her jailhouse, overcomes the headline competition of Two-Gun Gertie (Iris Adrian) by professing to be with child, stampedes the jury into freeing her. A telling point: Menjou, bearing the swooned Roxie in his arms, stands before the judge and elocutes: "The defense rests...

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 »

There is nothing wrong with his age, says Father (Adolphe Menjou), that Leslie Collier (Miss Swanson) can't cure; so de la Falaise, Marquis de la Coudraye, in 1925, she became the first Hollywood actress to enter London and Paris society, which found her "less like an actress and more like a lady than you could imagine." Legend has it that Miss Swanson prefaced her triumphal return to Hollywood with the Marquis by telegraphing Paramount: "Am arriving with the Marquis tomorrow. Please arrange ovation." Gloria Swanson, single once again after her four marriages, has a busy and original mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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