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...Cinemactress Ava Gardner, who has been avoiding the public since her latest spat with husband Frank Sinatra (during which Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...
Died. Susan Peters, 31, cinemactress whose budding career (Random Harvest, Song of Russia) was cut short in 1945 when she accidentally shot herself while on a hunting trip with her cinemactor-husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt...
Died. Hattie McDaniel, 57, cinemactress, radio's "Beulah," first Negro to win an Oscar (for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara's mammy in Gone With the Wind); of cancer; in Hollywood...
...Cinemactress Bette Davis, heading for Broadway in her first musical comedy (Two's Company), fainted during a solo on an opening-night tryout in Detroit. Carried from the stage, she returned in a few minutes to resume her part, ad-libbed to an applauding audience: "You can't say I didn't fall...
Divorced. By Arlene Dahl, 27, titian-haired cinemactress (The Outriders, Scene of the Crime): Lex Barker, 33, Hollywood's tenth "Tarzan," after charging that he called her "a hick from Minnesota" because she refused a predinner cocktail; after 18 months of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...