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...radiant young lady who clasped it looked, in her gown of turquoise slipper satin and black lace, like a composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett. For the third successive year, Margaret Lockwood last week shakily thanked British moviegoers for electing her Britain's most popular cinemactress. (John Mills, star of Great Expectations, was voted most popular cinemactor; Anna Neagle's The Courtneys of Curzon Street, the most popular film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shopgirl's Dream | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Married. Diana Wanger, 19, willowy, blonde-daughter of erstwhile blonde Cinemactress Joan Bennett (by her first husband; adopted by her third, Producer Walter Wanger) ; and John Hardy Anderson, 30, airplane-parts manufacturer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles, Presbyterian churchmen decided that at its next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Cruel & Unusual. In Providence, Inventor Vincent de Cesaris was working on a burglar alarm which would emit the recorded shrieks of Cinemactress Lauren Bacall and Chanteuse Hildegarde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...beautifully alive!" At that, he easily takes the romantic play away from the deadpan leading man, Stewart Granger. Phyllis Calvert, as a cabinet member's illegitimate child who eventually achieves her rightful station, displays a fine-boned beauty and something beyond the call of duty in a British cinemactress: a good set of teeth. A merciful Atlantic washed away the picture's only other attraction: the original title, Fanny by Gaslight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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