Word: cinedirector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's Tarrant Field training base at Fort Worth, to write radio scripts for air-force shows, Private Garson Kanin, 29-year-old ex-wonder-boy cinedirector...
Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...
...British World War I commander, turned up as a prisoner of war in Italy. Feather-haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman, turned up at work on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in the sidecar...
Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson...
...Bekessy, 31 ("Hans Habe"-A Thousand Shall Fall); and Eleanor Close Sturges Gautier Rand, 31, cereal heiress (Post Toasties), daughter of Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, wife of the ex-Ambassador to Russia and Belgium; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Manhattan. Her first husband was Cinedirector Preston Sturges...