Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neill had no reason to worry about money. His plays had netted him some $2,000,000; he could hope for a steadier income only if he had also written the Bible and a cookbook. His third marriage, with lovely Actress Carlotta Monterey, who had played opposite Louis Wolheim in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (see cut), was an eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers...
Married. Edith Kingdon Gould, 25, socialite, linguist (five), ex-child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), former lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, great granddaughter of the late railroad tycoon Jay Gould, and daughter of the late financier Kingdon Gould; and Guy Martin, 34, wartime Navy lieutenant; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
Without a doubt the most incessantly cute child actress of her generation, Margaret O'Brien nauseates more people than any pre-puberty screen personality since Shirley Temple in her hey-day. It's not that Miss O'Brien is a bad actress. She is a remarkably good one, with versatility, genuine feeling, and all the trimmings. The trouble lies in the basic idea of putting child actresses on the screen in big parts, an idea which leads almost inevitably to super-sanguinity, tedious tear-jerking, and a total lack of sex-appeal...
Married. Peggy Wood, 52, versatile, Brooklyn-born actress (Old Acquaintance, Blithe Spirit); and William Henry Walling, 51, Manhattan socialite-businessman; she for the second time, he for the third; in Stamford, Conn...
Divorced. (Francis) Xavier Cugat, 46, Spanish-born bandleader who made the U.S. rumba-constious; by Carmen Castillo Cugat, 40, aunt of Actress Margo; after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...