Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the purchasers of serious Deckers: Actress Tallulah Bankhead (who bought a painting of Barrymore as Hamlet), art-loving Errol Flynn (who paid $500 for a deep-toned landscape entitled Before the Storm...
Lucille Ball plays the part of a "bathing suit girl" actress who attends the Winsocki Military Academy prom to rejuvenate her position in the eyes of the public. Complications arise at the dance when a host of souvenir-minded girls succeed in ripping off a good portion of Miss Ball's attire. As an unpretentious bit of comedy, "Best Foot Forward" is a success because of its ready quips, uproarious scenes, and music that Duke Ellington would describe as "solid...
Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan...
Newsmaking Betty Smith, who described herself as a onetime "third-rate actress in second-rate companies," also: 1) pocketed $55,000 for the movie rights to her book; 2) publicly scratched Hollywood's eyes out when it offered her $1,200 a week ("I don't want any part of Hollywood"); 3) turned up as a blue-ribbon cook whose apple pies and chocolate layer cakes had won top prizes at the Michigan and North Carolina State fairs...
...Pearl Harbor (when it ends), only ordinary things happen to Jeffrey. Madge, his socialite wife, constantly complains that he never tells her anything (she usually fails to see the point of what he does tell her). He dallies for a few months in the Hollywood home of an actress, an old friend, and learns that he cannot write a play. His elder son, Jim, quits Harvard to join the army and marry a girl Madge does not approve. But on these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson's memories, turns them into vivid, detailed, often...