Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibitors-found John Wayne the No. 1 box-office draw, although Wayne made only two films eligible in 1954: Hondo and The High and the Mighty. Runners-up: Martin and Lewis, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Marilyn Monroe. Alan Ladd, William Holden (first time to figure in the first ten), Bing Crosby. Jane Wyman (first time), Marlon Brando (first time...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Kelly) and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TIME...
...gains), and Charles Steen, whose Utex Exploration Co. (90% owned by Steen) has an estimated $150 million worth of uranium underground. Hollywood's high-paid stars, who by tradition blow their wealth on caviar and Cadillacs, have also learned how to join the ranks of the new millionaires. Bing Crosby, for example, was able to buy 20,000 shares in Minute Maid stock for 10? a share in return for singing on the company's radio programs (the stock later sold for $15). Since then he has gone on to many other fields, including electronic tape recorders. Such...
Sued for $1,051,400 by three people injured when his $12,250 Mercedes-Benz collided with their car last year, Cinemactor-Crooner Bing (The Country Girl) Crosby got set for the trial in a Los Angeles court, then abruptly decided not to make a fight of it. Though still denying the other side's charge that he was tipsy and driving recklessly when the predawn smashup happened. Defendant Crosby instructed his lawyers to settle the case out of court. They...
Audiences who remember Bing Crosby's competent straight acting in Little Boy Lost (TIME, Oct. 5) are sure to enjoy watching him plunge into some new acting depths in Country Girl. And 50-year-old Bing, who sings a few pretty good songs by Ira Gershwin and Harold Arlen, possibly gets his biggest kicks playing the aging actor who has to wear special hair pieces to give him a youthful look for the play-within-the-play...