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Hotel Imperial (Paramount). Sloe-eyed Isa Miranda of Italy, who unfortunately got to Hollywood about ten years after Marlene Dietrich, going through her preliminary workout in a spy melodrama...
...contemporary U. S. writing in this difficult form. A distinctive book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively artless picture of life on a South Texas farm, written with such quiet good nature that, when it suddenly turns into a tale...
...panoply and poohbah of a Hollywood super-colossal. Nina is a Tsarist floozy who traipses to Vienna breaks several hearts, lies like a lady for the man she loves, fades out with a bullet in her heart. What distinguishes Nina Petrovna is that Nina is Junoesque Isa Miranda, whose gaunt loveliness combines the allure of Marlene Dietrich with the expressiveness of Greta Garbo. With Garbo vacationing on the Mediterranean (TIME, March...
Dietrich out of a job, Miranda is in Hollywood at Paramount, preparing to drape both their mantles over her shapely shoulders. To the late Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (who had never met her), Miranda was "the most glamorous one in the world. She is to the screen what Duse was to the stage...
...Douglas Wiggin's pig-tailed story, "Rebecca" makes a brave effort to amuse. Surrounded by pleasant people (Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerville), Miss Temple gives a mature and finished performance within a plot that seems somewhat septuagenarian. It is about Little Miss America, her starched Aunt Miranda, and a vigorous radio executive, and it ends in music...