Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the cutting room, gambled his savings in a freelance silent picture, Salvation Hunters. Fame had come with The Last Command, Dragnet, Docks of New York, The Case of Lena Smith, Thunderbolt. He was in Germany to make one picture for UFA. He had been looking for a leading woman. He had one major requirement: she must have beautiful legs, and a minor reservation: he preferred that she be unknown. Marlene fitted the first condition so perfectly that von Sternberg dropped his reservation. He cast her in the lead of The Blue Angel. When he returned...
...Press reporter he was going to break with Dietrich. He said he had done all he could to further her career, that he considered he would hinder her development. Dietrich read the story in the press. For two days on the set (they were making The Devil Is a Woman) she would not speak to him. Later they were reconciled...
...risen steadily. She got $200,000 for Allah. Figured on a picture rather than a weekly basis, she is Hollywood's highest-paid woman, the highest-salaried woman in the world. There is no doubt of her being a loving mother. Old friends tell how anxiously, when Maria was abroad, Dietrich waited for a letter containing the child's first tooth. When at last the denticle arrived Dietrich put it in her mouth and carried it there for several days. Despite the scintillating quality of her male escorts, the world's No. 1 glamour girl is definitely...
...cracks in Two Hundred Were Chosen are literally calked with cinematic hokum and bucolic humor of the "Hold 'er, Newt, she's a-r'arin' " school, but beneath all this there is plainly discernible a sincere and imaginative view of an unusual social experiment. A woman fed up with the childish bickering of the males shouts the play's most astringent line: "There aren't any men up here-only farmers...
...popped Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly of Louisville, famed among neurologists and psychiatrists for his post-operative treatment of a woman, who, despite an excision of a big chunk of her brain, remained placid and intelligent (TIME, May 27, 1935). Exulted bold Dr. Ackerly...