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Word: weepiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alexander Korda, the British movie mogul, signed her to a seven-year, nonexclusive contract. The late great Albert Basserman dragged her off on a tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Golden Look | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...Went to Your Wedding (Patti Page; Mercury). The sight of a man coming down the aisle "wearing a smile" makes his old girl bust into tears; unquestionably the weepiest item since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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