Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gardner were married (over Metro Mogul Louis B. Mayer's massive opposition). The studio sent a pressagent along on the honeymoon. "When you came down to breakfast, he was there," Ava recalls bitterly. "When you had your dinner, he was there. When you went to bed, he was damn near there." It was enough to make any husband jumpy. "On our wedding night," says Ava, "Mickey was so nervous. He kept writing letters to people and walking up and down...
...took a stack of books along on their honeymoon, made her read Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Dostoevski. She took a U.C.L.A. correspondence course in economics and English literature, tackled War and Peace, The Magic Mountain ("I thought I'd never finish that damn book") and Das Kapital ("Ever since then," says a friend, "she has been spelling capital with...
...portraitist, he early decided on art for his own career. After working with his father, he attended art school in Gloucester, set out for Paris at 22. Wilson Steer was not impressed. He found Paris full of fleas and smelly streets, afterward dismissed the French countryside as "damn silly." He did not bother to master the language or look into the brouhaha of impressionism that was turning French art topsy-turvy...
...shoes," recalls Silver, now a featured player in Broadway's Guys and Dolls. "He hadn't taken a bath in six months. He hadn't even taken his socks off in six months, and the guy weighed 287 Ibs. He just didn't give a damn...
...moll Virginia Hill, whose Austrian ski-instructor husband Hans Hauser has been ordered to leave the country, turned her temper on some unarmed reporters, slapped one, slugged another with her spike heel, then gave a statement: "The happiest day of my life will be when I leave this damn country." When her plane put down in Denver, she took a swing at the nearest stranger, apologized when she found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted to ask some questions. Said she later...