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...featured is "He Married His Wife" which reunites divorcees Joel McCrea and sassy Nancy Kelly after forty-five minutes of night clubs, racetracks, and Mary Boland's screwy country villa. In the course of the action Miss Kelly manages to appear in a nightgown twice, once in her chemise, with a bathing-suit shot in for good measure. There are numerous bedroom scenes in which Joel McCrea impersonates a mouse, a rat, and a sleep-walker. His hiding places are, respectively, the closet, underneath the bed, and the bathroom. To fill in the dull moments there are a Yoga...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

...work was believed possibly to have accounted for the murder of Dr. Walter Engelberg, secretary of the New York German Consulate, who was found in his house in Brooklyn dressed in an old-fashioned nightgown, lying on his bed with his face battered in. But last week it was no spy whom police arrested but a Canadian pugilist known as Ernie Haas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Kehler | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Doell went to the back of the house, entered the master bedroom. On a three-quarter-size bed, on top of the covers, lay the man he had come to see: Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, secretary of the Consulate. Dr. Engelberg was dressed in an old-fashioned white nightgown, his hands folded peacefully across his chest, the fingers extended. His head had been smashed by three blows. Obliterated were two sabre scars, marks of duels. He had been dead 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case of the Bedroom Slippers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...their stories, the baseball writers applauded Yankee Di Maggie's homerun and Yankee Gordon's seemingly impossible one-handed catch of hard-hitting Cardinal Medwick's line drive, but the headlines were all for Bob Feller. The dimple-chinned kid, who still sleeps in a nightgown, pouts when he is dissatisfied and goes to zoos for amusement, was at last recognized as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With paternal pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than any other major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stellar Feller | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...famed Countess di Frasso in 1935. By this time, Carole Lombard had divorced William Powell and Gable was no longer living with his wife. Countess di Frasso's guests had been asked to come in something white. Carole Lombard arrived in a white ambulance, wearing a white nightgown, lying on a white cot which was carried in by three white-clad interns. She and Gable danced together all evening. Later, Lombard had the ambulance decorated with a red heart and sent it to Gable. He had the motor supercharged and drove about in it for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Gets Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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