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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 expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...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 to daddy. Said she: "Joe Pasternak has first call on my services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Lane and Gale Page) of old Music Master Lemp (Claude Rains) in a typical U. S. townlet. This time maternal instinct defeats the considerable ingenuity with which, in Four Daughters, Director Michael Curtiz managed to keep cinemaudiences straight about, and interested in, the doings of four leading characters in one picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...consequences of marriage are almost too much for everybody in the Lemp sisterhood. The clinical situation at a glance: Sister No. 1 expects a baby, visits her doctor to learn that she never can have one. Sister No. 2 deduces therefrom that she is in the same predicament, adopts a baby only to learn that she is going to have one, has twins. Sister No. 3 is beyond all reasonable doubt going to have a baby, but its father (John Garfield) committed suicide in Four Daughters. Without waiting for the baby to arrive, she curdles the thickening plot by marrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Father Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker in Boston and London, Pierpont went to school at Vevey, Switzerland ("makes fun of things," noted the schoolmaster); later to the University of Gottingen, where he proved himself a born mathematician, fond of fine clothing and the fair sex. "No one ever enjoyed shopping more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pip's Portrait | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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