Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already familiar with Sargent were apt to turn to the swank, super-Gibsonesque drypoint portraits made by Helleu during the first two decades of the century. He is said to have done only four portraits of men-and the reason seemed obvious. Among his swan-necked beauties were the actress Liane de Pougy, Madame Helleu, Michael Strange, Mme. Louis Jacques Balsan (the former Duchess of Marlborough...
...with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book entitled My Son, My Son. Man-crazy Miss Duffy, the boss's daughter and pure Tenth Avenue, is Gardner's pretty, redheaded exwife, Actress Shirley Booth (My Sister Eileen, Tomorrow the World...
...Actress Katherine Cornell wrote to Soviet People's Artist Alia Tarasova. Industrial Bridgeport, Conn, sent greetings to the citizens of industrial Gorki...
Married. Playwright Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy), 36; and Actress Betty Grayson, 24; two years after his divorce from Cinemactress Luise Rainer; in Manhattan...
Jessel's first marriage, to Actress Florence Courtney, broke up when she got religion and he got restless. His second marriage, also to Florence Courtney, broke up after Jessel met "the one great love that you never find a second time"-Cinemactress Norma Talmadge. After an ecstatic beginning, that marriage foundered too. Concerning his fourth unsuccessful marriage, to 16-year-old Lois Andrew, Jessel quotes a remark attributed to the lady: "He's not too old for me, but I'm too young...