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Picked up at the County Clerk's office, by lackadaisical Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, who had taken 2½ years getting around to the errand: $2,300 in U.S. bonds being held for her there. "It's an exhausting trip into downtown Los Angeles," she explained, "and I was so tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Like a dying whale, the monster Academy shindig saved its mightiest thrash for last: to everyone's astonishment, Loretta Young was named (over Competitors Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Dorothy McGuire, Susan Hayward) the year's best cinemactress for her blonde-braided lady-politicking in The Farmer's Daughter. Gurgled Loretta, who had never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Last week, burbling Cinemactress Billie Burke was called into the studio to pick a name out of a fishbowl. The name happened to belong to Mrs. Edgar Parrett, 56, of Shiprock, N. Mex. That was how Mrs. Parrett became "Queen for a Day" and the winner of a staggering $35,000 assortment of prizes, the biggest, of course, in radio history-at least for a few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mrs. Parrett's Day | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...normal course of Hollywood events, Cinemagnate David O. Selznick was rumored to have set the rent on his latest import, Italian Cinemactress Alida Valli. For one picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cast of Characters | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...decade the Nelsons played second fiddle to various radio stars (Robert Ripley, Joe Penner, Feg Murray). Briefly, Harriet was a successful cinemactress (Follow the Fleet, New Faces). They joined Red Skelton in 1941, and when Red went into the Army, they finally got a program of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Full Nelson | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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