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Kings of the Olympics. Leni Riefenstahl's grandly photographed study of the 1936 Olympic Games, trimmed down for U.S. moviegoers (TIME...
Hitler demanded a German victory in the 1936 Olympic games, and got it. He also demanded a film record of the victory for propaganda purposes, and got more than that. Olympische Spiele, produced by Hitler's favorite moviemaker, redheaded Leni Riefenstahl (and some 600 technicians), turned out to be a magnificent documentary film...
...Protested Adolf Hitler's onetime protégée, Nazi cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, when U.S. troops ejected her from Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's hill villa at Kitzbuhel, Austria: "Some of my best friends were Jews." With tears in her great brown eyes she complained of the disrespect of an unnamed Boston Irish doughboy. "Baby," he had said, "I've been going to the movies a long time and I never heard...
...Foreign Office assistants, wearing the new Nazi diplomatic uniform, were among the first arrivals. The Finnish and Turkish diplomatic staffs arrived in top hats and cutaways, followed soon by similarly dressed Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, U. S. envoys. Big German bankers, industrialists, Cinemactors Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl trooped in. Editors and foreign correspondents presented their invitations...
...years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympic Games film (four hours running time) and to Vittorio Mussolini's Luciano Serra, Pilota, an ecstatic drama of Italian wings over Ethiopia. Walt Disney's world favorite, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was favored with a special Hors Concours (out of competition) Medal...