Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bets, and wound up at Sherry's, a nearby gin mill patronized by racketeers, movie stars, detectives and high-priced prostitutes. Mickey settled as always in Booth 12, which commands a view of all exits and entrances. One of his boys picked up a movie doll named "Dee" David, and brought her over. Just before 4 a.m. Mickey got ready to leave...
...Animals." Standing in the bright floodlights at the entrance, Mickey made a fine target. A burst of shotgun fire came from behind a signboard across the street. Special Agent Cooper, the man who was going to guard Mickey, toppled over with two slugs in his belly. Miss David was hit three times. A Cohen lieutenant dropped with a slug in his kidney, screaming. Only Mickey stood silent, without moan or shout. He had been drilled through the right shoulder...
Fighting Painter. To begin with, Director Alfredo Campanella (who bought the school as part of a deal for a nearby ranch) had got himself embroiled in a row with terrible-tempered Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. Maestro Siqueiros had come to San Miguel for a lecture series, then returned for one week each month to direct the students' work on a new mural. Increasingly excited over the project, Siqueiros wanted to work full time to complete it. Campanella, anxious to prolong the publicity the Maestro's presence was bringing his school, balked...
Paunchy Producer David O. Selzniclc, 47, who generally stays behind the cameras, was caught in front of one as he arrived beaming in London with his principal cinematic property and bride of a week, Jennifer Jones...
...Married. David 0. Selznick, 47, cinemagnate (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun); and Jennifer Jones, 30, cinemactress (The Song of Bernadette) ; each for the second time; in Genoa. The marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...