HITLER'S IDEAL WOMAN
At the International Motion Picture Festival in Venice the committee of awards presented the Mussolini Cup for outstanding cinematic achievements to “Olympia”—the German film ot the 1936 Ofympics directed by the actress Leni Riefntahl. _ American and British groups asserted that politics had dictated the award, and that Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ’ deserved the Pri Fraulein Reifenstahl is a close friend of Chancellor Hitler and has been described as his feminine ideal. Daughter of a Berlin plumber, she is in her late twenties, and has been given dictatorial authority over Nazi movie production. She took 1,700,000 feet of film and travelled as far as Greece for the effects of “ Olympia,” which last May the Reich Government adjudged the “ best motion picture achievement of 1937.” She has directed, written, and starred in film dramas about Greenland’s icebergs and 1 Alpine avalanches
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Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 14
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146HITLER'S IDEAL WOMAN Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 14
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