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...film after film, Wayne has larned the bad 'uns that villainy don't pay. In Stagecoach, possibly the best western picture ever made, he laid low two badmen with his trusty Winchester, reloading for the second kill as he dived to the ground to dodge the bullets of the first. As a white-clad lieutenant in a picture called Seven Sinners, he managed, by sheer force of innocence and a trusting heart, to turn a bedizened sinner (Marlene Dietrich) into a good woman and to preserve the honor of the U.S. Navy as well. Only very rarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages of Virtue | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Rock-jawed Cinemactor John (Stagecoach) Wayne, 44, recently named for the second time by movie exhibitors as Hollywood's No. 1 box-office draw, announced "with regrets" on his sixth wedding anniversary that he and his Mexican-born wife, Esperanza Baur, had separated, but hoped to patch it up eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prejudices & Propositions | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...most cynical Hollywood moviemakers reacted with a cold chill of alarm. This was no Payton-Tone free-for-all, 'or Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture and the intellectual values at the crossroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Triangle in Hollywood | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the wrong advice. It should be: Grease your wagon wheels. This musical of Gold Rush days has plenty of color, plus agreeable music and lively dancing. But with all these assists, it breaks loose only occasionally from a lumbering stagecoach of a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...according to the Tourist Court Journal, when a Douglas, Ariz, operator prettied up six tiny mining cottages, rented them out to passing tourists. Thus the hotel business reached the end of a full-circle swing. In Revolutionary days, the inns dotted the highway as way stations for stagecoach travelers. When railroads were built, the inns moved into the cities. When the U.S. took to the road in automobiles, "tourist homes" and motels opened up in California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and other vacation states, gradually spread to all the other states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Roadside Rest | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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