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ry . ry i Pen Bh a ek tegen lt a tira ARR st iis ina tna ct Aa IE ett nl tN ORCAS ot Py ont I a A ea ate a hime cn intent i i a ee eS en . V0 | A) i) Source Be 2eise agent on June.1, 1942. had had lunch at MIKE ROMANOFF'S restaurant, and in conversation with ROMANOFF had asked him what had happened to DIETRICH. ROMANOFF told him she had hunched there but once in the past several months, and that was with the writer, ara oe, HECHT; aleo, that when he, ROMANOFF, was in Washington recently, people Rad asked him about her activities, As a matter of information, ROWANOFF'S resp bY, taurant is habituated by those most prominent in the film industry. source (| | ERICH MARTA REMARQUE . re B talked of this b and that, and that REMARQUE brought up MARLENE, stating that ee oe - he had mown her —_ ' for twelve years since before she made her first success in the "Blue Angel", Se He said he was not in love with her but cares for her as a girl who is 90% vy good but 10% anfully stupid". RENARQUE continued to Source (that. he is worried 9 (> about her association with GABIN, whose pro-Axis films he, » cou nt understand. Contimuing, Source@Pstated, "As s Parielan filn eter, GABIN was to earning enough to live nicely, but nothing to what he has now." He thinks GABIN just a"stupid, suburban type of character who doesn't knoy when he's well off. A recent film fan magazine article incensed REMARQUE. It made MARLENE out as doing all the chasing and even taking GABIN back after the GINGER ROGERS incident. MARLENE has another film to do for Universal but told REMARQUE thal AV she didn't lke the one prepared for her. i ° ai fame DIETRICH is presently out of town touring the Middle West for the Treasury Department. On her return, should Source evelop any Gd _ information of interest to this investigation, same will be furnished the Bureau~ . r : Upon receipt of reference teletype from the Washington Pield Office, reflecting that Source A was to be on the west coast, this source was contacted on May 27, 1942, at which time she advised she was leaving the city but would be’ available on May 29, 1942, at which time she was interviewed by agent with refer ence to information in her possession concerning Subject. Source A explained the background of the film set-up in Europe, stating that Ufa no ‘longer exists and is . now called Continental Films, and that that set-up is endeavoring to sell Pads opener. cemiespen: in South America; that it consists of a merger of the German, French, and Dutch === Film Companies. (Continental Films has distributed in Russia and the United States up to the declaration of war, Source A was pressed for: what connection AU Subject had with QB anc QD at which time she replied that it is b POSSIBLE that MARLENE is involved, whereupon she went on to state that when 20th: Century Fox studios got JEAN GABIN under contract to come to this country, he had just flown away from Paris, in fact had gotten out of Paris just fifteen minutes before the Germans came in. From there he went to the south of France, .| where he was entertaining in the home of the VAUSAUGES (chocolate manufacturers),*” While there, a German representing Continental Films contacted him and tried to. _ get him to join the company. This he refused to do. Source A advised then that eR DIETRICH showed no interest whatsoever in GABIN until he began to make @ succesg...f5es-. 9° ~~ -> in this countrys Then she started to pursue him-and at the present time has hin, <.~..aceording to Source A, “ga-ga, _ ft les Seas. 2 s