Word: bel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California...
...sleep with mystery stories. But he had to give that up because his eyes have become weak and he is too vain to wear glasses. When the insomnia is particularly bad he gets up, dresses and spends the night walking the streets and up & down the hills of Bel Air mulling over business problems...
Under Elia Kazan's (The Skin of Our Teeth, Jacobowsky and the Colonel) able direction, a good cast works hard and well. Topping it, in the role of the Senator's younger daughter, is Stage Designer Norman Bel Geddes' charming, 22-year-old daughter Barbara. With only a brief career of small parts behind her, she may well stand out as the best ingenue of the season...
Period! In Cleveland, Robert Harris faced the court for sentence on a drunken driving charge, fainted dead away when he heard, "$100 and costs, to be executed by July 2." Carried Away. In Chicago, Lester Bel grade stood in line two hours for two steaks and entrusted the package to his trained cocker spaniel, a faithful package-bearer for the past five years. Next day he was still waiting anxiously for the missing dog to come home...
Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation; in Bel...