Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Pare Lorentz, 37, famed producer of documentary films (The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains); by Sally Bates Lorentz, 30, onetime Broadway actress and mother of his two children; after eleven years of marriage; in Reno...
Meanwhile a Swedish songstress named Lala Anderson (whose recording had caused the Belgrade furor) had made Lili Marleen the rage of Berlin cabarets. Actress Emmy Sonnemann (Frau Hermann Göring) sang it for Nazi bigwigs at a concert in Berlin's Kroll Opera House...
Indisputable Nitwits. Some of the most ominous pages of Between the Thunder and the Sun describe the prewar scene at the Château de 1'Horizon, a villa near Antibes on the south coast of France. The chateau belonged to graciously aging U.S. Actress Maxine Elliott, aunt of Sheean's wife, Diana Forbes-Robertson. Like the society of which it is a symbol, the chateau perched precariously on a rock between the railroad tracks and the deep blue...
...married to a former Follies girl (Rosemary Wallace) whom he taught to fence, he presides over his own Salle d'Armes in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza, where his pupils include several U.S. fencing champions and a handful of celebrities: Tenor Richard Crooks, Writer Paul Gallico, Actress Lillian Gish. As a finished world champion, Nadi finds it unnecessary to train, likes to spend his evenings in expensive nightclubs...
...peacetime Virginia lumberman, onetime Maryland state legislator. Captain Howard and the onetime elevator girl applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first was to Bandsman Herbie Kay, the captain's first was to Louise Brooks, daughter of Mrs. Lionel Atwill, who was the first wife of General Douglas MacArthur...