Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1916 U. S. railroads carried more than a billion passengers. Last year they carried less than half a billion. Much of the loss went into trips made by U. S. citizens in their own automobiles. But a big piece was lost to U. S. bus lines and a big...
Destry Rides Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an...
Destry Rides Again is charged with enough buckaroo comedy* and sheer animal spirits to keep cinemaudiences chortling even when there is nothing to laugh at, makes even the widely advertised Dietrich v. Merkel hair-pulling match (the closest the picture comes to being vulgar) seem just a romp. As entertainment...
James Stewart, who had just turned in the top performance of his cinematurity as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, turns in as good a performance or better as Thomas Jefferson Destry. Marlene Dietrich, as Frenchy, the bad girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best...
One of the first "places" was reported to be Paramount, which dropped her in 1937. But to the sudden autumnal flurry of studio offers, Cinemactress Dietrich, grateful to Producer Pasternak for giving her another chance when other producers would only take her out to supper, replied that her option belongs...