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...pictures continued to lose money, and since it had been apparent for some time to both of them that she never would become another Mary Pickford, in 1937 Marion made her last picture. She and Pops more or less settled down to the life of Midas-at their 55-bathroom, $3,250,000 beach palace in Santa Monica, and the twin-towered $30 million Hearst castle at San Simeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pop's Girl | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Davies and Carole Lombard would remedy that in the ladies bathroom. After Calvin Coolidge spent a weekend with Hearst, Marion complained: "All they talked about was their g-g-g-goddamned circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pop's Girl | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...room service"). And when it came to interior decorating, she was worse. In a costly attempt to convert the Wagners' colonial mansion into a Beverly Hills Parthenon, she capriciously fired three contractors. The result was a Pompeian extravaganza: the ornate staircases wobbled, the floor under Natalie's bathroom (with its sunken 6-ft.-square tub) sagged, the ceiling fell on the enormous canopied bed. Flaky plaster sifted down on Natalie's 20-ft. marble dressing table, sank into a 6-in.-deep sheepskin rug, powdered the antique balustrades cut from the top of Marion Davies' beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Up from Happyland | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...delicately, Reuther explained that all G.M. workers are entitled to 24 minutes off the assembly line each day "to take care of their personal needs." But. charged Reuther, G.M. was denying workers this inalienable right by refusing to put enough extra men on the line to allow for the bathroom breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Toilet Strike | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...behind a newly constructed, six-foot cedar fence, the President's eleven-room, five-bathroom summer White House reflects the tastes of Jackie Kennedy. Yellow. Jackie's favorite color, dominates the decor. The walls are light and are hung with seascape paintings, including a few of Jackie's own, and one determined primitive by the President himself, showing the Riviera port of Villefranche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Kennedy Living | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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