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The Duchess of Windsor, to many a most enviable woman, believes that she has an "appalling" place in history. This account of how she got there, according to her loyal publishers, was written by her alone, but ghostly fingers may nevertheless be detected at work with the familiar cheesecloth. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bessiewallis | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

The Duchess insists that hers is no Cinderella story; she and her editorial assistants have dusted off an impressive number of highborn Maryland and Virginia kin-Montagues and Warfields so snootily Southern that they called the Union Army "Mr. Lincoln's men." This family tree spreads its shadow over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bessiewallis | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

4) The Rose Tattoo (Wallis; Paramount)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box Office | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

The Martin & Lewis technique has paid off well. In addition to their fat NBC contract, Dean and Jerry make two movies a year: one for Paramount with a guarantee of 70% of the net profits and one for Producer Hal Wallis at a straight salary of $200,000 (see CINEMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To the Rescue | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Artists and Models (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is an alarming example of what can happen when a picture is remade too often. No matter how vigilant the studio, slight changes creep into each new version, until at last some producer makes a movie that is almost original. In this film, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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