Word: cinestar
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After a year-long court fight, Texas Oil man W. Howard Lee, 51, fifth husband of ex-Cinestar Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr, 45, got a divorce, terminating what was, according to Lee, a most unecstatic six-year marriage. Hedy did not contest Lee's suit or his testimony that she had often belted him, reviled him, squandered his money, and accused him of swiping her jewelry. Day after the divorce, Hedy, gazing raptly at one of her own oil paintings (title: Chinatown), told newsmen that the marriage had gone bad because she had been too much a "mother...
...Actor Brian Aherne last January. ¶Socialite publisher Stuart Scheftel who married Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald last September. Listed under "Dilatory Domiciles," the Register's never-never classification reserved for those who are not settled at a permanent address, were: ¶Socialite theatrical producer Horace Schmidlapp, who married lush Cinestar Carole Landis just after the Register's 1946 deadline...
...salary ceiling was raising hob with high-priced stars, directors, writers, producers. At week's end the Treasury Department modified its rules so that movie colonists can earn more in 1942 than in 1941 provided their contracts so specify. But in 1943 no cinestar can earn more than $25,000 net-a figure many of them once got for a single picture. Plain & simple out: lower salaries...
...moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...
...canoe bearing Cinestar Bette Davis and 12-year-old bitplayer Janis Wilson across California's Lake Arrowhead overturned, dumped them into deep water 40 yards from shore. Swimmer Davis succeeded in getting semi-swimmer Wilson to shore, gave her up to her mother, who spanked the daughter, kissed the actress. "I am an old Eagle Scout," explained Miss Davis...