Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Weissmuller, 41, barrel-chesty onetime swimming champ, longtime movie Tarzan, onetime husband of Dancer Bobbe Arnst and of Actress Lupe Velez, was sued for divorce for the third time. Wife III charged extreme cruelty, asked $1,800-a-month support for herself and three children...
...treacle for snaring readers discovered by Morrill Goddard, when Hearst lured him away from Pulitzer to found the Weekly, still works. A typical Goddard issue mixed a princess in distress, an actress "telling all," science's latest mechanical brain, and a snorting brontosaurus. Oldtime Goddard-admirers at the American Weekly say that his secret was his ability to believe anything that made a good story. It was a big help that most of the things he wanted to believe happened in remote villages in Siberia, China and the Balkans...
Married. Luise Rainer. 33, bang-browed, earnest-eyed actress, twice winner of Hollywood's top acting honors (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936, The Good Earth, 1937). lately occupied with USOverseas entertaining; and Robert Knittel. English-born editor (Creative Age Press); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Died. Alia Nazimova, 66. Russian-born actress who specialized in Ibsen (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler) and Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), onetime silent screen glamor girl (Salome), lately featured in character roles (Since You Went Away); of coronary thrombosis; in Hollywood...
...saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...