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Engaged. Lieut. Rudy Vallee, 42, Coast Guard bandmaster; and Bettejane Greer, 18, model, his film-singer protegee; in Hollywood. Cinemactress Fay Webb, the crooner's second wife, divorced him in 1936, died the same year...
...Merry Widow's box-office appeal, the New Opera Company departed from its past policy of using only youthful U.S. unknowns. It hired world-famed Polish Operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura for leading man, gave the part of the Widow to his wife, Marta Eggerth. Redheaded Hungarian Cinemactress Eggerth, an enticing peach sundae in liberally flounced weeds, gave Lehár fans all they could...
...child, Joan Fontaine is a little matronly. But her scenes are memorable in proportion to their painfulness. As death approaches in the Dodds' luxurious London mansion, Cinemactress Fontaine achieves some first-rate emotional acting. So does Charles Boyer. Boyer's chief dramatic assets are commonly believed to be his spaniel eyes and the veins in his temples. The flat fact is that romantic Cinemactor Boyer has forgotten more tricks of acting-or just standing still-than many of his colleagues will ever learn...
...Corio, long the "Most Beautiful Girl in Burlesque," and now a cinemactress, explained with high logic why she had always stripped down to "lingerie or panties" rather than the classic G-string: "If a girl takes off her clothes, you don't expect to see her in a rhinestone G-string with fringe and tassels...
Married. Greer Garson, 31, red-haired cinemactress who got 1942's Academy Award; and U.S.N.R. Lieut. Richard Ney, 29, peacetime cinemactor; each for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif. In Mrs. Miniver...