Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Jackie Cooper, 27, onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ); by June Home Cooper, 30, onetime cinema starlet; after five years of marriage, one child ; in Los Angeles...
...other news of Judy Garland, see CINEMA...
...good old days of Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert, said Novelist Banks, the typical woman, "a creature of emotion," found that the movies gave her emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks it was that shattering 1931 scene in which James Cagney pushed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. From that day on, the oldtime sleek romantic screen lover began going into eclipse...
...could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum, he raised his gold-plated trumpet, gave out with a honey-toned Sleepy Time Down South. Seated on a Coliseum ledge, he dashed off music and words for a 32-bar improvisation, then lifted his burlap voice and sang...
Divorced. Alexander Crichlow ("Lex") Barker Jr., 30, Manhattan socialite who combined a deadpan acting style and bulging biceps to become the tenth cinema Tarzan; by Constance Thurlow Barker, 32; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...