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Seeking Divorce. Crooner Tony Martin, 28; and Cinemactress Alice Faye, 24; after more than a year's separation; in Los Angeles. Grounds: incompatibility. Said she in Hollywood: "It was inevitable that we should part when our careers kept us from each other." Said he in Miami: "We did our best. . . . Our separate careers kept us apart, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Radio's Superman is six-foot-two, 184-lb. Clayton Collyer, brother of Cinemactress June Collyer. The episodes are produced in Manhattan by Superman, Inc., recordings expressed to stations using them. Superman has a sound effect about every four lines. For many of his righteous crushers, jumping on various sized berry baskets suffices. For the disintegration of a steel ball bearing in an episode recorded last week, the sound men finally got the oomph they wanted by tossing a dinner plate in the air, busting it with a hammer on the way down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: H-O Superman | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Cuthbert J. Twillie is first-rate W. C. Fields' clowning, which is proof enough that one of the coolest heads in show business surmounts Cinemactress West's opulent curves. For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan. She let Funnyman Fields write in his own part, ad lib to his heart's content. Best ad lib was carefully excised from the picture. Murmured Fields one day to the goat which he mistakes for Flower Belle: "Darling, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. British Cinemactor Herbert Marshall, 49; by British Cinemactress Edna Best, 39; at Las Vegas, Nev., under the auspices of Judge Roger Foley, who five minutes later married her to Hollywood Agent Nat Wolff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Shirley Temple it is rather important that they should. This year Cinemactress Temple, now age ten, fell to fifth place among Hollywood stars in box-office rating. Persistent rumor, persistently denied by her studio, has it that the success of The Blue Bird and the future of little Miss Temple are vitally connected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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