Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, being his mother, I might build up enough evidence to ask that this case be reopened." By some morbid twist, one Oswald letter from Russia expressing bitterness against the U.S. sold for $3,000 at the Manhattan autograph hawker's auction. Three letters from Jackie Kennedy to Actor Basil Rathbone went...
Clara Bow never found the limelight again. Her comeback efforts-two pictures, a Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons...
...White House years, when newspapers carried stories that they would go on auction this week. Four were to a haberdasher ordering socks and such for Jack, one a touching but unimportant 1954 regret to an invitation because of her husband's recent back operation, and three to Actor Basil Rathbone explaining why Jackie wanted a speech from Henry V read for Jack by Rathbone at a White House reception. "It is just one of his favorites," wrote Jackie. "He also loves Henry V (and he reminds me of him, though I don't think he knows that!)." Manhattan...
Audrey Hepburn hardly makes a move without Famous, her tiny Yorkshire. Liz Taylor takes her Pekingese and three Yorkshires almost everywhere. Tenor Franco Corelli travels with a poodle. Actor Rex Harrison brings a basset hound, and Gypsy Rose Lee has even smuggled her Chinese hairless puppy onto an airplane in her bra. With all that precedent, it was hardly a surprise that Mr. and Mrs. Everyman got the idea too. The result is that now Rover is roving all over the world nearly as much as his owner...
Died. Michael Charles Boyer, 21, only son of Actor Charles Boyer, promotion director for his father's Valiant Record Company; by his own hand (.38-cal. pistol), in a game of Russian roulette after his fiancée broke off their engagement; in West Los Angeles...