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Divorced. John Ireland, 42, actor of screen (All the King's Men), stage (Summer and Smoke) and TV; by Joanne Dru (real name: Joanne Letitia La Cock), 35, brunette cinemactress (Red River, Day of Triumph) ; after 7½ years of marriage, no children (she has three by her marriage to Crooner Dick Haymes); in Hollywood...
With both guests Interviewer Wallace wore himself out beating at a straw man. In questioning oldtime Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, his baiting, inquisitorial manner was not only impertinent, but-worse -not pertinent. It is too late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint...
Died. Dorothy Sebastian, 50, oldtime (1925-32) cinemactress (Sackcloth and Scarlet, Our Dancing Daughters) and onetime (1930-36) wife of William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, with whom she appeared in His First Command, The Big Gamble; of cancer; in Hollywood...
From Haiti came tidings of the restless honeymoon of self-satisfied Novelist James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, 33, and his luscious, platinum-tressed bride, Gloria Mosolino, 29, whose previous claim to fame was a brief stand-inship for Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Before going to Manhattan last week to grapple with his publisher, Jones discoursed long and freely about his latest goo-plus-page opus, Some Came Running, due for autumn publication. "The book," crowed Jones, "is 300,000 words longer than Eternity. The last six months I lived on gin and Miltown while finishing...
Multimillionaire (TransWorld Airlines, Hughes Aircraft Co., etc.) Howard Hughes, 51, for more than a quarter-century Hollywood's most eligible (estimate: $200 million) catch, was snared at last. The winner: sometime Cinemactress Jean (It Happens Every Spring) Peters, 30, for ten years a close friend of Hughes's, not counting a year's marital fling in the interim with a Texas oilman...