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...introduction to Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Egg Fry | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Divorced. By Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 29: Jack-of-all-Theatrics Orson Welles, 32; after four years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Hard to Believe. Irma's characterizations are cut to the measure of the cast. Every one of the actors looks and acts his part in & out of the script. Most astonishing of all is Irma herself, Cinemactress Marie Wilson, who has been playing the role of a dumb blonde for so long that she now lives the part. Marie's fluffs at rehearsals and on the air are daffier than anything a scripter might imagine. "She is so much like Irma," says Sy, "that I have to rewrite the things she says to make them believable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dizzy Blonde | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

High-keyed, redhaired, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson, pushing 40, told a judge that Actor Richard Ney, 28, had called her a "has-been." She got a quick divorce and left the courtroom sobbing as the flashbulbs popped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...Baltimore, hypermammiferous Cinemactress Jane Russell in The Outlaw moved Judge E. Paul Mason to comment. Her breasts, hummed the judge, as he upheld the state's ban on the movie, "hung over the picture like a summer thunderstorm spread out over a landscape. They were everywhere. They were there when she first came into the picture. They were there when she went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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