Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Frances Margaret (Judith) Anderson, 48, versatile veteran stage & screen actress; and Luther Greene, 38, Broadway theatrical producer; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Divorced. By Diana Barrymore, 25, actress daughter of the late great profile and Poetess "Michael Strange" (now Mrs. Harrison Tweed): Bramwell Fletcher, 42, British-born actor; after four years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...
Xavier Cugat, king of the rumba, was legally serenaded by Manhattan's Town & Travel Wear, Ltd. The dress shop said that Cugat (who has been sued for a separation by his wife of 16 years) okayed "anything in the house" for Actress Lorraine Allen-whereupon Miss Allen brooded for two hours, then settled on something in taffeta with an off-the-shoulder effect. The shop ran it up, to order, and then Cugat sent it back. What the shop wants: $297.95, in jigtime...
...Ambition. Success was a long time coming. At 16, he ran away from the Irish-Christian Brothers School in New Rochelle, N.Y. to join his mother, oldtime Actress Grace Hayes, in a Broadway variety act. All through the '30s he played theaters and saloons, had parts in 15 movies (13 B, two A). In 1940 he married Actress Mary Healy, now starring in Orson Welles's Broadway extravaganza, Around the World (TIME, June...
Died. John Hollis Bankhead, 73, Senator from Alabama since 1931, who fought hard for the restoration of ex-King Cotton to the U.S. economic throne, last of a hardy trio of congressional Bankheads, uncle of throaty Actress Tallulah; of cerebral thrombosis; in Bethesda...