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Apparently told not to play her siren straight, Miss Dietrich is naturally at a loss. By nature so sirenish that she is already practically a satire of a siren, she can scarcely be expected to kid herself. Her pretty posturing, pouts, stunned, exotic stares are meaningless when she tries to do them once over lightly. Pretty to look at, they are wasted voltage in a picture that aims to be a gentle comedy of 19th-Century manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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