Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offers the season's smallest cast and one of its gayest evenings. Playwright van Druten (There's Always Juliet, Old Acquaintance) has not only written a winning light comedy around just three people, but has even managed to suggest that three's a crowd. For youthful Actress Sally Middleton (Margaret Sullavan) and Sergeant Bill Page (Elliott Nugent) two is company, and good comedy at that...
...suit charging that she had not paid all the $12,000 she had promised him. When the papers in the case were unsealed, the details of the original divorce settlement were exposed to the public view. Ex-Husband Judson was to get, besides the $12,000, all the actress' community property except her household furnishings and one of two automobiles. In return Judson promised not to "sell, give away, circulate, or dispose of any matter arising out of their marital relationship"; and not to "imply . . . that she has committed an offense involving moral turpitude . . . or . . . conducted herself...
...Dood It (M.G.M.) To spite a faithless fiancé, a dancing actress (Eleanor Powell) marries a man (Red Skelton) who, she believes, owns a gold mine. She kicks him out when she learns that he is really a pants-presser, grabs him back when he foils a saboteur's attempt to blow up a munitions warehouse...
...quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella, a wedding present . . . screaming the while: 'You'll never have my autograph, woman...
...Radio Actress Chase's first book since her autobiographical Past Imperfect, It is dedicated to the literary limousine trade...